BRITAIN’S FOOD

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 258, 30 July 1942, Page 5

BRITAIN’S FOOD

(British Official Wireless.) (Received July 29, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, July 28. In a debate on food supply in tha House of Commons, the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Hudson, said that everything that man could do had been done to ensure the greatest possible harvest. He had asked farmers to increase the tillage area by half a million acres this year. He was also pressing for increased production of milk, which was already 10,000,000 gallons better than before the war, and 3,000,000 better than last year. This called for increased effort by land workers, and, if certain arrangements matured, they would be expected to work this autumn by night as well as day. Britain, he said, had already succeeded in growing an immensely increased bulk of food, but he was confident there was still room for expansion. . Mr. Walter Elliot, a former Minister of Agriculture, said it had been agreed that the Ministry of Food and agricultural subsidies ehould continue after the W Mr. Mabone, Parliamentary Secretory to the Ministry of Food, replying to the debate, said the potato crop was expected to be extremely heavy, and it was hoped that potatoes would be.used extensively in place of wheat. He discussed how new methods such as dehydration had enabled a variety and abundance of food to be supplied to the public. In distributing food, the Ministry was prepared to act as the situation demanded. If military demands reduced the amount available, the hands of all would have to go to their belt buckles.