POPULATION INCREASE
FURTHER PRODUCTION NEEDED World population was increasing at the rate of 55,000 a day, said Mr W N. Perry, Dominion president of Federated Farmers, when reporting to the Dominion Council of the federation this week on his visit overseas. There should be no year of over-production of foodstuffs if adequate international arrangements were' made for the distribution of food and for the expansion of production complementary to agriculture. A large increase in food production was needed throughout the world particularly in deficit regions and in low income regions. But the problems were how could some such areas pay for the food produced and how could the trading arrangements of nations be improved so as to facilitate a larger and more regular flow of products at prices fair to producers and reasonable to consumers.
The overall future of the world’s food position showed that world supply was catching up with world demand in certain products and in certain areas. There was, however, still a very considerable shortage and that made it necessary to ensure intergovernmental action to deal with both surpluses and shortages.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 2
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