English Translation

In the view of the Secretary of State, Mr Backe, it is not possible to avoid a reduction in fat ration according to the current estimates. Naturally, every effort will still be made to keep this reduction as low as possible. Due to the question of a possible reduction in grease ration, a leader change has not yet been achieved. With regard to the question of wintering damages, St.S. Backe concluded that this would have been by far the greatest in the area of the Great German Empire. The heads of the Food and Agriculture Divisions of France, Belgium, Holland, Protectorate, Government, Denmark, Norway, Serbia and Greece were invited to give a brief overview of the current supply situation and the prospects for the 4th year of the war. These reports were very informative for all conference participants. They resulted in many common lines in the implementation of the management measures and in the resolution of the supply difficulties which arise, but also in the fact that many problems in the food sector can only be solved by particularly hard measures, which reflect the economic characteristics and political conditions of the food industry. It is not easy to schematically apply these sharp measures to other areas. In his lecture, Dr. S c h m i d t, prior to the large deliveries of subsidies to date by the Reich, pointed out that the Protectorate did not need a grant of bread cereals from the Reich in the present state of forecasts and in favourable weather and harvest conditions in the coming marketing year. Dr. Schmidt, in particular, the incisive cultivation and quota measures carried out in the Protectorate in the plant and animal sectors, which aim to preserve the protectorate's self-sufficiency in the food industry.