FARM PROBLEMS
WARTIME CO-OPERATION
LONDON, September 19. *
Consultations between the National Farmers' Union and the Minister of Agriculture have begun in order to ensure close co-operation in the settlement of wartime problems, including control of sales and prices and their bearing on food production.
The Minister stated that the action hitherto taken ,to fix food prices was provisional, in order to stabilise the position pending the Food Minister's assumption of control. Future prices would depend on factors not yet defined. Farmers could expect reasonable returns, and would be guaranteed a market. Prices for crops and livestock would sometimes be supplemented by subsidies fixed as circumstances dictated.
The Ministry of Information announces that the scheme of the Ministry of Agriculture in Northern Ireland for increased cultivation provides that farmers on areas of 10 acres or over shall have one-fifth of the total arable land cultivated by 1940. The aim is to secure 250,000 acres in village areas, and it is confidently expected that this will be reached.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1939, Page 10
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166FARM PROBLEMS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1939, Page 10
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