"Spiv" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"Spiv" wrote in message
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No, yet again you fail. When importing
large qualities of grain, etc from
north America, It meant the UK could
concentrate on war production. Simple
when you know how.

It meant nothing of the sort.

It did.

Women were conscipted to work
on to the land to increase food production.

That is true, yet they didn't need to go 100% self sufficiency in food, as
they could import it when the U boast were suppressed.


They weren't able to, the crop varieties available at the time
simply made it impossible. Your inability to understand this
is simply amazing.

at http://www.ecifm.rdg.ac.uk/postwarag.htm

You'll find a graph of wheat yields per acre
post war. They rose from less than 3 tons per ha
in 1948 to almost 8 tons per ha in the year 2000

This is largely a result of switching to the new varieties
of crops in the post war period

By 1940 every plot of land that could
grow food including school playing fields
had been ploughed up and planted.

That was mainly for morale purposes, as was build Anderson air raid
shelters, which the government knew were pretty useless in a direct, or
near
direct hit.

It still wasnt enough.

In 1940 you are probably correct. However food production was far higher
in
subsequent years.


But never reached anything approaching self sufficiency.

Keith