FOOD PRODUCTION
BRITAIN’S THREE-YEARS PLAN [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] LONDON, October 13. War agricultural committees with executive powers have been established by the Government in all counties to direct Britain’s three-years food production plan. The immediate task is to get 1,500,000' additional acres under the plough by next year. Each committee has decided the minimum acreage of grassland that must be ploughed in its area. Experts are arranging for the use of 70,000 tractors. Already a record acreage has been ploughed with the voluntary co-opera-tion of farmers, and it is unlikely that the compulsory powers of the war committees will have to be exercised. ULSTER SURPLUS EXPECTED. LONDON, October 14. The Government of the North of Ireland is forming a Women’s Land Army, training hundreds in tractor driving, and also granting loans to farmers in order to mechanise land. A great surplus of food is expected, and it will be devoted to the United Kingdom pool.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 October 1939, Page 8
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