Excerpt from World Agricultural Situation, 1955 Recent developments in France point to more aggressive economic policies which might well lead to re-establishment of that country as an exporter of wheat, sugar and meat. Trade liberalization in Europe, including imports from the dollar areas made further progress in l95h though it lagged behind the potential of improved foreign balances. USSR Acreage Expansion: In l95h the Soviet Union began a program of acreage expansion, but production differed little from the level of 1953 except for cotton, the production of which appears to have been larger. There still is little improvement in livestock production, the weak link in Russian agri culture. The drive for expansion of crop acreage may have cut the area in perennial grasses and worked against needed expansion in livestock numbers. Government policy during l95h apparently shifted to favoring expansion of consumption of agricultural products. The Soviet Union imported considerable amounts of food, as did other Eastern European countries which appear to have had an even less successful agricultural outturn in i9sh than in the low year of 1953. The increasing demand from USSR and other Eastern European countries for fats and oils, meat, cheese, fruits, cotton, tobacco and even grain is likely to continue on an even larger scale in 1955. This movement is in line with the policy change to permit some increase in consumption at the expense of greatly emphasized investment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.