CONFERENCE AT STOCKHOLM

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26127, 1 June 1950, Page 5

CONFERENCE AT STOCKHOLM

“In different forms, the main prob-4 lem of the a.-.nual meeting of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers at Stockholm will be the closing of the gap between the price oi home-produced food and the price j of imported supplies.” says ihe ; “Farmers’ ’weekly ” in a leading articie. “Surpluses of many products are piling up in different parts of tne world. The United Slates Government has bought millions of tons of . potatoes in oraer to ‘support’ the price io farmers, and now it uoes not know what to do with its stocks since the cost of moving them io a dump is more than they are worth. Millions of pounds of dried eggs have been similarly bought and stored, in order to take them off the market. And so on. “In Europe. Holland and Denmark have built up tremendous exportable supplies, particularly of dairy produce and eggs. The Eire Minister o r Agriculture recently offered to flood

Britain with cream and butter, to oury us in bacon, and swamp us with ' ihe position of such countries has been cieaiKy put by ur. Ha.mam mmself, president of i.r.A.P., ana of the Canadian federation of Agriculture. He said: “IhL quebtiun of expor.s and. more important, ma question ox. wnat we shou.d do with tne surplus produce if me export market declines. a.;d how we would manage to hula securi.v for our farmers, are problems you will be ruiimng into in many of vour countries. ” There is already a surplus of 20,0()0.:;0ulb of bun er. Canada knows '.hat European countries uo gcg want that surplus released overseas at px'ices below tho u wnich producers in other coun.x.es are receiving. The Canadian uovernment bougnt 10.000.0001 b of canned i .ilk last j ear just to save the price o. mat product rom collapse. Some of it ria- gone to ’he International Childrens Emergency Fund, but there is still soms left: ’