GERMANY’S FOOD

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 441, 24 May 1937, Page 5

GERMANY’S FOOD

People To Grow More General Goering told a meeting of German iarme.'rs and peasants and leaders of tbe Nazi Peasant organisation in Berlin recently that a further increase in German agricultural pioductlon was essential to the FourY&ar Plan, with 'the execution of which he had been entrusted by ithe Fuhrer. During last year imports of food had been reduced to 17 per cent, of their total requirements. This, however, was not sufficient. The campaign to make Germany self-suf-ficient in food supplies must be continued with still greater intensity. With this object in view he had decreed several measures affecting agriculture. These include subsidies for an increase of arable land; reductions in the prices' of artificial manures varying from 5 to 30 per cent, (which. General Goering said, would be retrospective as from January 1 last, and; would involve sacrifices' by the nitrate stricter supervision of private agricultural undertakings, including powers under a decree to evict farmers who did conduct their farms economically or to put in trustees to run them (these powers are additional to those taken some time ago in regard to unsatisfactory owners of Nazi hereditary farms' eadr); an increase in the price of rye from 8 to 9 marks a hundredweight to discourage the use of rye for animal feed; the building of houses for farm labourers; and the provision of credits to farmers in cases where ordinary banking credit facilities, were not available. General Goering issued a final warning to workers who “fled from the land” in the hope, of earning more in file towns. He would, he said, treat such flight in the future as an evasion of responsibility to the whole national economy.