DECLINE OF LIVE STOCK
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES (Rec. 6.30 D.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 27. It is estimated that the decline _of livestock in enemy-occupied and allied countries as a result of requisitioning and slaughter and the lack of feeding stuffs, is about 1,000,000 cattle, 3,000,000 horses, 12.000,000 pigs, and 11,000.000 sheep. These figures were revealed in a report prepared by Allied agricultural experts. The report draws attention to the fact that the decline constitutes a serious menace both to post-war food supplies and to the future of European agriculture. Milking production has gone down by more than one-third, and meat production by nearly onehalf. The reduction in breeding animals is such that recovery to the prewar numbers will take many years, and the lack of draught animals may be a serious hindrance to cultivation for the first post-war harvest.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25136, 29 January 1943, Page 4
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