A. AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATION 



Although we realised, when we wrote our Minority 

 Report last May, that the problem of the returning 

 soldiers necessarily involved the whole question of 

 British Agriculture, we felt constrained to limit 

 ourselves to those aspects of the agricultural problem 

 which affected the employment of soldiers most 

 directly. Agricultural organisation is one of the 

 topics which we barely touched. And yet it is essential 

 to the success of the industry. It is good organisation 

 more than anything which has made Danish and 

 Belgian agriculture flourish so wonderfully. And it 

 is better organisation which agriculture in the United 

 Kingdom so badly needs. We need the development 

 of real co-operation in the collection and distribution 

 of produce ; the utilisation of the great market 

 afforded by the network of industrial co-operative 

 societies ; and the adoption of a proper system of 

 agricultural credit. It is in these directions that 

 we must largely look if we want to see the 380,000 

 small holders and farmers with holdings of under 

 150 acres each (whose total acreage is six-sevenths 

 of our cultivated land) greatly increase their pro- 

 duction of food and the amount of labour they employ. 

 And for these purposes we beheve that the system 

 of combining voluntary organisation with official 

 support and public grants, upon which the Agri- 

 cultural Organisation Society has been based since 



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