ANOTHER FAMINE

Grey River Argus, 31 January 1946, Page 5

ANOTHER FAMINE

FACING INDIA Extensive Crop Failures Red Army (Rec. 8.10). LONDON, January 30. The “Times” Delhi correspondent states: India is threatened with a famine more extensive than the 1943 Bengal famine, unless more imports of grain from overseas are received than are at present in sight. Further serious deterioration in the rice and millet crops of Southern India was reported at a food conference at Delhi. The Central Government prepared its rice and millet budget in October, but by the third week of December the crop forecasts for Madras and Mysore were written down bv more than one and a-half million. tons, because of a cyclone and of drought. The latest figures show additional losses of more than one million tons of rice and millet in Madras and in Mysore. There has been a failure of winter rains. It has affected the wheat crop of North-West India. It is estimated that it will be necessary to import at least two million tons of food and grains this year to avert famine. The general impression is that this is much more than has been promised.