Australia Faces Record Potato Famine
Reeeived Friday,' 8.50 p.m. CANBERRA, Feb. 4. Australia will haye tlic greatesl potato famine in its history late- this vear, said the . Coinmoinvealth Potato Coutroller (Mr. *G. N. Dash). This would yesult from a dccline- in the potato acreage from the Commonwealth to the States. The output of Vietoria and Tasmansia — the biggest potato growing States — will be down 23 lper cent on last year. It will be fcaken from 76,000 aeres as against 108,000 piast year. •* Because-'-' of the uilcertainty ®rer prices and marketing, potato growers '•are turning to other aspccts of farming.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 February 1949, Page 6
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