More Russian Cheese
(From a Reuter Correspondent) ROME.
Russian cheese production has increased by 500 per cent, since World War 11, making the Soviet Union the world’s sixth largest producer, the Food and Agricultural Organisation said here. Its bulletin of agricultural economics and statistics said that last year the Soviet Union produced 150,000 metric tons of cheese, compared with a pre-war average of 25,000 tons. Her production has surpassed both Denmark and New Zealand. The other five largest producers in the world are the United States, France, Italy, West Germany, and Holland. Norwegians ate more cheese than any other nationality, with consumption annually 8.9 kilogrammes (about 191 b) per person, the bulletin said. Pre-war record holders were the Swiss, who still eat an estimated 8.5 kilogrammes (about 18Jlb), then the French, with an average yearly consumption of 8 kilogrammes (about 17Jlb). Although Russians eat three times more cheese than they did before the war, annual consumption per person was only 0.7 kilogrammes (about lib 4oz).
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29058, 21 November 1959, Page 10
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