WORLD ASKED TO EAT DARK FLOUR

Chronicle (Levin), 29 May 1946, Page 7

WORLD ASKED TO EAT DARK FLOUR

Received Tuesday, 8.40 p.m. WASHIN G-TON, May 27. United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation at the International Food Conference today called on the world to eat dark flour. and use more wheat grain than at present, diluting it with other grains and potatoes hy at least 5 per cent., to combat the hunger of the next 12 months. It also urged a i'urther curtailment of the feeding of grains to animals as one of the greatest measures towards saving food. The conference forecast that the 1946 food production would fall at least 10,000,000 tons short of requirements. Nothing could he more disastrous than for countries to assume that the 1946 harvest would solve the trouhles. The conference recommended all countries to adopt the 85 per cent. flour extraction rate. Looking to the future the conference said farmers' fears of surpluses and depressed prices might hamper Tull production and that the problem of surpluses could he resolved only within the framework of expanding world economy. The conference further recommended that grains for beverages and industrial purposes he kept to existing low levels or further reduced, and fats he diverted from industrial uses. The new International Emergency Food Council may hold its first meeting this week. It replaced the British, American and Canadian Comhined Food Roard with the responsibility for the direction of international food production and allocation.