STATE RABBIT FARMS
LARGE RUSSIAN SCHEME.
MEAT SHORTAGE EXPECTED
LONDON, May 26. A conference at Moscow of the chief officials of the Commissariats of Agriculture, Trade, Meat Products and Collective Farming approved of a scheme to establish a “State rabbit industry” on a great scale to alleviate an expected meat shortage. The conference appointed a special “Rabbitisation Committee” with instructions to produce from- 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 pedigree rabbits during the present year, and to construct State factories for the mass production of canned rabbit flesh, rabbit sausages and rabbit pasties. A five years’ plan lias been drawn up in the greatest detail, including the fixation of the price of fresh fur each year. The conference paslsed a resolution that the public lias not yet realised the vast possiblities of rabbit culture. It was, therefore, decided to distribute literature on the subject on a mass scale, to organise propaganda, and to encourage supplementary private rabbit enterprise by special travelling cinemas.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 200, 10 June 1929, Page 8
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