BRITISH FARMING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 11

BRITISH FARMING

MINISTER'S SURVEY

SCHEMES PRODUCE RESULTS

(British Official Wireless.) (Received June 9, 1.10 p.m.)

RUGBY,. June 8.

■ The question of the general agricultural administration in Great Britain was debated in the House of Commons following a comparative survey of the outstanding problems by the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. W; S. Morrison). The milk scheme, which had saved the industry from collapse, has led to an improvement in the quality and iquantity of this vital food, he said. The pig and bacon schemes had also greatly increased home production. The Government was fighting disease by research and would take the plight of the industry into account in the negotiation of trade treaties. ■ ,:

As a result of the Government's policy towards agriculture as a whole, he continued, something had been done to help farmers to pay without being consumed. Production had increased and there was much greater stability in prices.

He now aimed at reducing the wasteful costs of production. Too little attention had been devoted to the grass crop. If that could be increased, as it could, without1 undue expense, by only 15 per cent, the country could support 1,000,000 more cattle and could dispense with the large imports of feeding stuffs, and thus be better placed to defend itself. :