FARMING EFFICIENCY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20385, 23 October 1940, Page 9

FARMING EFFICIENCY

t BRITAIN LEADS EUROPE MAXIMUM PRODUCTION (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Oct. 21. Commenting on the high efficiency of English agricultural methods, Sir E. J. Russell, a leading agricultural scientist, says in a letter to The Times that production efficiency per labour unit is higher in Britain than anywhere on the Continent. “Approximately 1,000.000 farmers and farm workers provide some 40 per cent of the food of about 45.000,000 people,” he says. “For example, one labour unit feeds about 18 people. No other European country has so good a showing. Mr. P. Lamartine Yates recently calculated the net output a worker of the most advanced European countries for 1937. For the United Kingdom it was £2OO, end for the western countries it ranged down to £9O, and for Germany £7O. Further east it is much less. “The result is that the agricultural worker in this country receives higher remuneration than anywhere else in Europe.”