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Show Food Prospects World food production during dur-ing 1949-50 may be slightly smaller than a year earlier, reports re-ports the Department of Agri-culture. Agri-culture. However, carry-over stocks of food are larger, and much progress has been made in rehabilitating the food distribution distribu-tion system in many of the war-devastated war-devastated areas. This means that the improvement in last year's per capita food consumption consump-tion will probably be maintained. maintain-ed. Any further improvement would depend on imports. With increased production of livestock products in prospect, diets may be further improved nutritionally. Except in a few countries, average consumption i xsxsss&xsxsxsxsxs during 1948-49 in terms of calories cal-ories equalled the prewar level lev-el even though per capita supplies sup-plies of meats, fats, and sugar remained below that level. |