§ Miss Quennellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how his Department proposes to encourage the increase in supplies of poultry-meat without a preceding increase in egg production.
§ Mr. HoyThe increase in demand for poultry meat is being met from home production almost entirely by the expansion of specialised table poultry production. This is quite distinct from commercial egg production and any increase in egg production as a by-product has been insignificant.