English Translation

37 1/1f Subject: Report on our fat economy. + The lack of self-sufficiency in edible fats and technical fats was already great in the former Czechoslovak Republic. We imported significant quantities of fat pigs, pig fat, bacon, almost all raw materials for the production of artificial fats and small quantities of butter. Causes : for our natural and economic conditions it was more advantageous to produce meat and import fats, because their production is expensive in our conditions. The trade agreements allowed cheap imports of fat from the states of the small duck and from Hungary in sufficient quantity and at any time. The poorer population demanded above all cheap fat, especially artificial fat, which, however, was the main obstacle to increased production of domestic fat. The raw materials used for these artificial fats were mainly imported from overseas from tropical areas. Under such conditions, our agriculture was unable to increase domestic production of animal fats, i.e. fat production of pigs or increased production of butter or domestic oil seeds, simply because T d a t e could not absorb : 484 V1C3 6