EFFORTS TO STIMULATE PRODUCTION
Received Thursday, 7 p.m. WASHINGTON, May 8. United Nations food and agricultural organisation has ealled a meeting at Washington on May 20 to appraise tiie facts on a long-range food situatiou, to stimulate maximum conservatioa and production of food, and to inaugurate a four to five-year plan eo carry the. world through the present crisis into a permanent world food policy organisation. It declared the world food gituation was likely to remain critical for four or five years. It is estimated Europe and the Far East would need to irnport in 1917 30,000,000 metric tons of wheat to maintain even minimuni subsistence levels, whereas the ampunt availahle for export from the. four ehief exporting countries was not likely to exceed 20,000,000 tons.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 May 1946, Page 5
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