Plenty of Food Produced in Soviet Zone

Grey River Argus, 21 May 1947, Page 5

Plenty of Food Produced in Soviet Zone

Despite the bad winter an excellent harvest is expected in the Rus-sian-controlled Mecklenberg province, where spring sowing was completed at the week-end. Big estates formerly held by Junkers have been split into small holdings, of which every acre was sown. More than 100 tractor squads were made available for areas where ploughing lagged. ANGLO-U.S. ZONE RATIONS

An Anglo-American statement said that the calorific value of the present German rations would be maintained, even at the cost of varying Germans’ diet from district to district. The statement added that the stocks of •grain and grain imports during the next few weeks would not allow the allocation of the full bread ration all over the zones. “The executive of the German Food and Agriculture Committee must assure that the availability of rationed goods is maintained on the same calorific level throughout the zones,” the statement adds.

FOOD SHORTAGE LIMITS GERMAN PRODUCTION

A report so far unpublished by the Anglo - American Export - Import Board, states that German exports for the first quarter of this year are well below half the schedule necessary to make Germany self-support-ing by 1950, says Reuter’s Berlin correspondent. The exports for the first three months of this year were £7.752.949, as against the target of £18,750,000 for each quarter of 1947. The cold during the first quarter hampered production and transport. The food shortage slowed production at the beginning of the second Quarter.