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Financial Assistance to Agriculture.
The Sub-Committee discussed the desirability of a study of the
financial aspects of the various measures of assistance received by
agriculture in different countries and of the effects of such measures
upon the development of the production, imports and exports of foods
in the countries concerned. Such a study was considered very useful
and the Sub-Committee recommended that it should be undertaken.
Conclusions : Requests to the International Institute of Agriculture.
In conclusion, the Sub-Committee decided to ask the International
Institute of Agriculture :1
(a) To furnish such information as exists on the consumption
of cereals, sugar, meat, milk and other dairy products, poultry and
eggs, fresh vegetables and fruit;
(&) To show as far as possible the trends of production, consumption
and prices of these products in those countries for which reasonably
complete statistics are available ;
(c) To obtain municipal data on the quantities of milk and fresh
vegetables entering certain large cities and to utilise these data to
supplement the information referred to under (a) and (6) ;
(d) To continue its established policy of improving agricultural
statistics, giving special attention to the deficiencies in the material
now available on the protective foods, and to draw the attention
of each Government to the particular directions in which improvement
is desirable ;
(e) To collect data bearing on the financial aspects of the assistance
received by the national agriculture of various countries and on the
effects of such assistance on the production, imports and exports
of foods ;
(/) To collect and study wholesale and retail prices, particularly
of the protective foods, and to relate such price data to the trends
in production and consumption in various countries.
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Annex.
Memorandum by the Chairman on the Need for investigating
the Effects of a Widespread Improvement of Popular
Nutrition upon the Demand for Agricultural Products.
During the discussions in the Sub-Committee, the question was
raised whether an attempt should not be made to indicate by a few
1 The results of the enquiries undertaken in accordance with these requests are contained in Volume IV
of the report of the Mixed Committee entitled, “ Statistics of Food Production, Consumption and Prices.”