Big Increase In Rice Areas Needed
Received Tlmrsdav, 7 p.m. LOXDOX, Feli. 12. Kcvieiving the world rice supply situation, the lnternationsil Federation nf Agricultural Prodaeers ' news service says 1 iie position is stili serious and is liively to remuin so untii tliere is a sulislant.ul increase in production in the Oru'iit. Estimates place ihe world s rice Jiarvest I'or I !M 7-4s at (i.95(>,n()(l,()(i(i onsluds whidi woiild sliou an increase o) .)d.(lilO,(lli(i Imshcls ovrr tiie previous season 's yield lnit would t'all ronsideralil\ jielow the 7. lii(>,')lii;,()(iii-laishel crop averaye of tlie prewar period. Surveys initiiited l>y tlie Food and Agriculture Organisation of UNu have s!io\\ n timi tlie population of Far Kast eni countries wliich are the princi]ia! rice eonsiuners, is imreasiny out of all proportion to the extension of tlie rice grnwing areas. I-lven prior to tlie wtir, ('hina and India, the world 's two laryest eonsiuners, were importing rice iit tiie rate of 2,2.1(1,(1(10 (ons annually. Pruduct ion in liotli countries is stiil wei! Iielow prewar levels while of the tlnee niain e.vjiortiny eountries, hunua, Siain and Frencli Indo-t'liiua. only hunua has been ahle to increase its exJ'ort uuolas. Indo-l'hina is not expeeted to rea«di prewar liyures for another seveii years and Ni'im has reduced its ex | >o'rt taryet by over lOo.UOO tons lor liie !ir.-t six moiiths of this year.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 February 1948, Page 5
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