ABSTRACT
At the beginning of 1946 the world found itself faced with a food shortage far worse than anything experienced during the war. While there are severe shortages in the meat, fat and sugar supply the world over, there should be enough food in the present crop year to allow for adequate diets in most countries and to avoid starvation in all of them. The available grain will carry farther, since the extraction rates have been higher from the very beginning of the crop year, while in the 1945/1946 crop year they had to be raised in the second half. For the crop year 1947/1948 the increased application of chemical fertilizers and abroad, of mechanical power, of better seeds and progress in the reconstruction of European and Far Eastern agriculture make the recurrence of an emergency improbable. Largest crop may even be sufficient to allow for an increase in the export of coarse grains for feed purposes.
