FOOD PRODUCTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 226, 25 September 1942, Page 5

FOOD PRODUCTION

POSSIBLE U.S. SHORTAGE New York, Sept. 23. The Washington corresponent of the New York Herald-Tribune says that a countryside survey has revealed that immediate rationing of a wide variety of foodstuffs and restrictions on the movement of key farmers from the mperative if a disastrous food shortage is to be avoided in 1943, despite the unparalleled production of food in 1942. In additioi, food specialists call for the establishment of the centralised control of food from the land to the table by the Food Administrator, comparable to the control over rubber, This is necessary to consolidate half a dozen agencies now controlling sections of production. Restriction of an exodus of farm la ur into the army and war industries is also necessary. Although Nature has never been more bountiful, demands for food have been unprecedented, for expanding army and lend-and-lease supplies for the Allies. Also, extra food is need for the American people, who are working harder and making more money than ever before.