FOOD FOR BRITAIN
EMERGENCY PLANS READY
I understand from the Ministry of Agriculture that plans for the maintenance of home-grown food supplies in wartime have been prepared, writes the agricultural correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post^ They are based on a "short-term-plan to foster increased production and a "long-term" plan, already m operation, to improve fertility of the b°The Minister of Agriculture, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, will be unable to disclose details of the "short-term plan however, until it has been approved by tlie Cabinet, whose decision may be delayed by the pressure of other affairs. ... Farmers, watching the passing of this yearns seeding-time, are asking for guidance. The answers to the Ministry of Agriculture to their questions seem to be:
Opportunities for increasing productivity of their land already have been made; and a skeleton organisation Has been established whereby at a few hours' notice a series of local committees for counties or agreed regions immediately operate in determining how best output can be fostered and directed. There are assurances that the farming industry will not be left short of labour, and it is anticipated that the full use of all power-driven implements on farms will be encouraged. At present the main task is completion of the emergency organisation, based largely on experience gained in 1917 and 1918. while avoiding as far as possible any dislocation of normal agricultural routine. Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, together with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, Captain A. U M Hudson, recently conferred with delegates from the National Farmers' Union on electricity and water supplies in rural areas, transport, drainage! and country amenities These conversations were resumed later Mr W S. Morrison Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, now has.the ?ik of co-ordinating the work of the Food Defence Plans Department and the. Ministry of Agriculture for an emergency.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 14, 17 July 1939, Page 7
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307FOOD FOR BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 14, 17 July 1939, Page 7
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