WORLD BUTTER PRODUCTION

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27376, 15 June 1954, Page 11

WORLD BUTTER PRODUCTION

Increase Reported

For 1953

(Rec. 10.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 13. The United States Agriculture Department today reported a 6.5 per cent, increase in world butter production and an 8 per cent, gain in world cheese output in 1953. It predicted an even bigger manufacture of butter and cheese in 1954..

In a preliminary forecast of world butter and cheese production in 1953, the Department said a three-year “downward trend in world butter production was reversed.” The increase was “general,” with but one exception —New Zealand—and there the decline was small, as that country “had raised its production by more than 15 per cent, during the three-year period in which world production was declining.” / The forecast was made in the Department's weekly publication, “Foreign Crops and Markets,” which estimated the total world butter output at 8.530,000,0001 b compared with the 1952 production of 8,010,000,0001 b. The factory production of butter amounted to 4,572,000,0001 b last year compared with the 4,101.000,0001 b in 1952. The total cheese production in 1953 was 5.034,000,0001 b compared with 4.64 i,000,0001b in 1952. while the factory production of cheese was 3.356.000,0001 b compared with 3,058,000,0001 b in 1952. Australia and New Zealand registered an increase of more than 8 per cent, over 1952 levels. “World butter production is still more than 11 per cent, less than prewar figures,” the Department said, adding that the 1953 cheese production was “more than 42 per cent, above the pre-war level.”