FARMING PROBLEMS

Evening Star, Issue 21822, 11 September 1934, Page 9

FARMING PROBLEMS

THE AGRICULTURAL CRISIS PROFESSOR WATSON’S VIEWS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 10. (Received September 11, at 10 a.m.) Professor James Watson, addressing the British Association for the Advancement of Science, said that the present agricultural crisis could have been mitigated had the nations realised that the cheap producer in new countries must displace the dear producer in the older ones. “ Russian agricultural planning is right, though its execution is clumsy,” he said. “The danger of planning is that it may he twisted to increase the production of one ocuntry at the expense of others. Yet planning is the only solution of agricultural distress. I do not think there could be a large increase in the number of employed in British agriculture without considerable cost to the consumers, but farming in Britain could at least compete with countries overseas if the small holdings were replaced by ‘ factory farms.’ ”