BRITAIN’S FOOD

Evening Star, Issue 26067, 3 April 1947, Page 7

BRITAIN’S FOOD

INCREASED HOME PRODUCTION NEEDED THREE-PARTNER CONFERENCE (NIZ.P.A. Special Correspondent.) (Rec. 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, April 2. A conference lias been called by the Royal Agricultural Society, the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, the (Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, and the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society to consider the possibilities of increasing home food production and any further measures necessary to deal with farming losses caused by the blizzards and the floods. In a letter to ‘ The Times,’ the president of the Royal Agricultural Society, Sir Archibald Weigall, says the White -Paper revealed the urgent necessity for increased British food production in order to reduce food purchases from overseas and particularly from dollar countries. During the war British farmers proved-the value of their industry to the nation, and they, are anxious to prove it again. The great disaster which had befallen British agriculture during the winter made the possibility of the farmers increasing their contribution more difficult, but it also made it necessary that industry should take stock. ‘The Times,’ in an editorial, supports the purpose of the conference, which, it says, ' will be attended by farmers of all political faiths and drawn from organisations representing three partners in agriculture—the owners, the farmers, and farm workers.