Britain's Bid For Higher Production
Eeceived Alonday, 7 p.m.) ' LONDON, Jan. 31. Good progress is reported as being made with the .drive to increase Britain's livestock as part of the Govern ment's four-vear plan for higher production. Compared with a year ago, Britain now has on her farms 247,000 more calves and cattle, 607,000 more sheep and lambs, 844,000 niore pigs and over 5,250,000 niore poultry. It is stated that these increases will enable Britain to reduce food imports gradually. These figures are given by the Ministry of Agriculture which also states that the acreage under vegetables is maintained at a high level. The autumn sowing of wheat, however, was the lowest for several years, due to the late harvest last summer and heavy crops of sugar beet and potatoes. It" is hoped to make good tlie delicit by the spring sowings. There is an encouraging upward trend in agricultural labour. The total j workers employed last December showed an increase of 23,000 over a year -ago, despite the repatriation of 42,000 prisoners of war.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 February 1949, Page 5
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