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Show Price Supports Aid British Farmers Although British farmers now are being paid adequate prices for practically prac-tically all the main food products to return a profit on the farm by the government, the present British policy pol-icy is not assured after the war, it was reported. British farmers enjoyed prosperity prosper-ity during World War I, but the repeal re-peal of price and wage guarantees m 1920 left the farmers without pro- tection when prices for their products prod-ucts dropped, driving much land into use as pasture. In the early 1930s, British agriculture agricul-ture had become so hard pressed . that a system of direct subsidization was adopted. The subsidization system sys-tem was superseded after the outbreak out-break of World War II by a policy of guaranteed prices for essential farm products. |