FOOD SITUATION IN EUROPE IS DISQUIETING
LONDON, September 24. Authoritative estimates of the food situation in the Northern Hemisphere during the coming winter are disquieting. It is now estimated that the European grain harvest, exclusive of Russia, will be at least 7,000,000 tons less than it was in 1946-47, when nearly 18,000,000 tons had to be imported to maintain Europe’s bread ration. It is therefore expected that Europe’s minimum grain import requirements this year will be 25,000,000 tons.
It is increasingly doubtful whether the bumper harvests in the United States and Australia will redress the loss caused by the poor harvests in Europe itself and the decrease in the Canadian crop. Last year Europe took 64 per cent, of the surplus grain exported to all parts of the world, and the Food and Agriculture Organisation in its recent crop estimates considers that no larger proportion will be available for Europe this year.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 September 1947, Page 7
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