CANADIAN FARM PRODUCTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 40, 18 February 1943, Page 4

CANADIAN FARM PRODUCTION

W ITH the exception of wheat and cheese, Canada’s food production objectives for the current year are set considerably higher than those of 1942. The wheat situation throughout the world has improved in consequence of generally favourable harvests in recent years. The total wheat production averaged, between the years 1933-37 inclusive, 992,000,000 metric quintals, a quintal being IOOIbs. The world yield in 1938, excluding U.S.S.R., China Iraq and Iran, was 1,242,000,000 metric quintals. In 1940 and 1941 the estimated yield was 1,078,000,000 metric quintals, and 1,080,000.000 respectively. The crop of the North American Continent, has risen from an average of 240,000.000 metric quintals in the velars 1933-37 to 368,000,000 in 1940, declining to 339,000,000 in 1941, and rising to the peak of 435,000,000 last year. Canada plans to sow down in wheat 17,696,000 acres, which represents a decrease of 18 per cent. It aims to produce the same quantity of cheese as in 1942, namely 200,000,000 pounds. The stocking-up of cheese in the United Kingdom has already been referred to in this column, and it appears to be desirable that a statement concerning the present position should be made, seeing that Canada is not lifting cheese production during 1943, but is hopeful of advancing butter production by 15 per cent.