ENGLISH FARMING

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 436, 18 May 1937, Page 2

ENGLISH FARMING

More State Aid London, May 3. English farmers are eagerly awaiting the promised Government scheme for -helping agriculture to pay its way and at the same time increasing the home-raised food supply—at the expense of imports from Australia, New Zealand and foreign countries. Here are some of the points the plan is expected to include: A “Back to the Land” campaign based on a “Back to the Plough” motif; extension of present Wheat Subsidy Act to enable farmery to increase home Wheat production, from 6,000,000 to 9,000,000 quarters annually at a guaranteed price of 47/6 a quarter. The spreading of the wheat subsidy scheme over all thje grain crop,®—• barley, oats and so on. The encourof real mixed farming, as' opposed to the present tendency towards specialist production, through the inclusion of temporary pastures in the arable crop rotations to carry more livestock and' increase the fer. tility of the land; and .a food storage plan against national emergency, in which all the canning and foodpreservlng concerns and grain ini. Porters are to be enrolled.