LARGE INCREASE

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1940, Page 2

LARGE INCREASE

MANAWATU PRODUCTION According to the ftgures supplied by district committees to the Manawatu Council of Primary Production, a substantial increase in farm production will take place in the Manawatu area. For this to be carried out completely will involve overcoming several difficulties. with which the council is already dealing, but under favourable conditions the nett result of the Manawatu contribution to increasing the food supply should be an impressive one. Although there are still a large number of returns from different districts to be handed in. the following increases in production have been promised in the Manawatu area, which extends from Paekakariki to Rangiwahia and includes the Feilding. Kiwitea and Pohangina districts: Sheep 14,920. pigs 3707, run cattle 1162, dairy cattle 1878, poultry 2258, root crops 1523 acres. grain crops 13161acres, lucerne 18 acres, grass seed 532 acres, clover seed 12 acres. These figures were referred to Mr. L. I. Plimmer, secretary of the Manawatu District Council of Primary Production, who said that. favoured by a good season, there was no doubt that there would be a very sdbstantial increase in primary production this year. Farmers generally were responding magnificentiy to the call for further food supplies for the netherland. Difficulties were involved in obtaining this increased production, and farmers, farmers' organisations, the council, the merchants and the Government were doing their best to overcome these. One of the chief problems concerned, winter feeding, and to overcome this a certain amount of winter cropping was being done. New accommodation for pigs was being provided throughout the district, and provision for additional finance had been made. There were still a number of problems to be solved, such as marketing.