Abstract
BRITISH agriculture is unquestionably in a very serious position, and few will disagree with the assertion of the farmers that they are not mainly to blame. The essential features of farming that mark it off from other industries are that its programme of production must be definitely settled many months ahead,that the programme, once begun, cannot be modified, and that the amount of production is subject to large and uncontrollable fluctuations from one season to the next. In the past few years, these inherent diffi culties have been intensified by the rapid fall of prices due to world economic conditions and by the numerous corollaries of that fall. It is no longer possible for the landlord to act as a buffer between his tenant farmers and their difficulties, and the State has, of necessity, taken over a portion of this task.
The Planning of Agriculture.
By Viscount Astor Keith A. H. Murray. Pp. xvii + 186. (London: Oxford University Press, 1933.) 6s. net.
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K., B. Agricultural Organisation. Nature 133, 360–361 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133360a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133360a0
