AGRICULTURAL POLICY
EFFORT TO LAY <A FOUNDATION
THE CORN PRODUCTION BILL,
(AUSTItALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CAILE ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, 24th April.
In the House of Commons, Mr. R. E. Prothero, Minister for Agriculture, in moving the second reading of the Corn Production Bill, emphasised the necessity for greater independence of foreign supplies. . It was desirable to make rural life more prosperous. The Bill was a national, not-a farmers' measure. If wo produced 82 .per cent, of (he national requirements for five years, the remainder could be made up by storage and economies, In order to obtain this Result it was necessary to increase the. arable areas from nineteen, to twenty^ seven million acres, A further quarter of a million men were required on the land of Britain. The Minister added that 330.000 acres would be put down j in corn and potatoes this year, and in I Ireland the area would be 700,000 acres. I Mr. Eunoiman explained that the meaI sure, which was controversial, wap intended to lay the permanent foundation of an agricultural policy.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 99, 26 April 1917, Page 7
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