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Show Science Says We Shouldn't Starve SCIENCE believes the world can continue to feed its constantly increasing population, possibly due to rise from the current estimate of two and one half billion to as much t four billion by the end of the century. , Th assurance was given during the recent International Geographical Geograph-ical Congresi In Washington. The Society was one of the hosts to the gathering of delegates from more than 50 foreign countries. Dr. W. H. Sebrell, Jr., director of this country's National Institutes of Health, reported to a symposium on world food supply that chemistry chem-istry and agricultural technology, advancing side by side, inevitably will keep pace with the numerical growth of the human race. H said that eradication of malaria and he called this entirely en-tirely possible ajone would Increase In-crease food yields In all parts of the globe by making agricultural workers more productive. Dr. Theodore Schultz of the University Uni-versity of Chicago's department of economics told the same group that the United States, if called upon, could increase its food productivity by 20 percent In five years, or enough to feed 30 to 100 million more people. Dr. George Kuriyan, University of Madras, said India probably was not as yet making the best use of its farm land. In many instances, ht told his scientific audience, tracts are either too large or too small to be efficient, and much land that could raise foodstuffs Is presently devoted to commercial crops such i s Jute. Other Congress speakers expressed ex-pressed the opinion that the in creasing population will have to be fed from land already in use because be-cause there are "no longer empty areas worth developing." Dr. Josue de Castro of the Unl verslty of Brazil disagreed in part He held that the bottomlands of the Amazon River country could be made vastly productive. |