FOOD. REQUIREMENTS, SUPPLY AND RETAIL PRICES IN WAR TIME. Note by Minister of Food covering Memo. Essential requirements. Supplies. Imports. Home Production. Stocks. Price Movements. Extent and reasons for increases. Poor consumer. Price Control by Order of Agreement. Other methods of Price control. Prices, Sept. 1939 to May 1940. (Table I). B.M.A. Diet (adjusted to War conditions). (Table II). Price per 1,000 calories. (Table III). Price Changes in certain groups: (Tables IV, V, & VI).

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FOOD. REQUIREMENTS, SUPPLY AND RETAIL PRICES IN WAR TIME. Note by Minister of Food covering Memo. Essential requirements. Supplies. Imports. Home Production. Stocks. Price Movements. Extent and reasons for increases. Poor consumer. Price Control by Order of Agreement. Other methods of Price control. Prices, Sept. 1939 to May 1940. (Table I). B.M.A. Diet (adjusted to War conditions). (Table II). Price per 1,000 calories. (Table III). Price Changes in certain groups: (Tables IV, V, & VI).

20 Jun 1940

The price of certain foods (e.g. bread and home-produced meat) has been kept low by subsidies. The price increase of this group of foods between September 1939 and May 1940 was only 8 per cent. Of the unsubsidized foods the prices of some have been controlled by price order and the price increase of this group was only 19 per cent. Of prices no### hitherto controlled the average increase was about 40 per cent. Steps have been taken, or are being taken, to extend price control to the principal foodstuffs falling within this last group.
singapore agriculture madagascar argentina turkey children retail egypt syria farmers nutrition cereals maize food supply wheat pork united states of america canada agricultural production animal feed australia barley beans beef bread butter cattle cheese cocoa coffee cost of living distribution eggs family fish fruit imports industry pulses livestock meat milk maternity mothers burma netherlands new zealand oats parents peas plums potatoes poultry price controls prices rabbits rationing rice sheep sugar supply pigs tea vegetables oil fats starch price control social class manitoba flour licensing dairy wholesale margarine berries food supplies bacon cream currants cabbage land usage harvests oil seeds overseas trade ploughing communal feeding nationwide food policy committee ministry of food preserves sultanas
Civil Defence Region
Nationwide
Collection ID
CAB74
Document Reference
CAB 74/4/15
Document Types
Memorandum Report Statistical Publication
File Reference
CAB 74/4
Former Department Reference
FP(M)(40) 82
Identifier
10.1080/wtss.cab74.000004.015
Keywords
Agricultural Production Agriculture Animal Feed Bacon Barley Beans Beef Berries Bread Butter Cabbage Cattle Cereals Cheese Children Cocoa Coffee Communal Feeding Cost of Living Cream Currants Dairy Distribution Eggs Family Farmers Fats Fish Flour Food Supplies Fruit Harvests Imports Industry Land Usage Livestock Maize Margarine Maternity Meat Milk Mothers Nutrition Oats Oil Oil Seeds Overseas Trade Parents Peas Pigs Ploughing Plums Pork Potatoes Poultry Preserves Price Controls Prices Pulses Rabbits Rationing Retail Rice Sheep Social Class Starch Sugar Sultanas Tea Vegetables Wheat Wholesale
Language
English
Locations Discussed
Argentina Australia Burma Canada Egypt Madagascar Manitoba Netherlands New Zealand Singapore Syria Turkey United States of America
Organizations Discussed
Food Policy Committee Ministry of Food
Pages
11
Published in
United Kingdom
Series
Papers 70(40) - 182(40)
Themes
Rationing Supply Agriculture Food Supply Licensing Price Control

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