Word: grains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meat will not be served one day out of seven. Moscow insists that the campaign will "improve the food pattern" of Soviet citizens. In fact, the Kremlin has been forced to scale down meat consumption because of a growing shortage-the direct result of last year's disastrous grain harvest...
...face of necessity, the Russians are proceeding as cheerily as they can;Tass reports have approvingly noted that "fish Thursdays have caught on well with Muscovites," who now tell themselves that eating more fish is good both for the brain and the cholesterol count. The 75 million-ton grain shortfall of 1975 led to a severe pinch in feed grain for animals; as a result, a sizable percentage of the Soviets' livestock was unseasonably slaughtered early this year. For a brief time, urban shoppers were presented with the agreeable spectacle of entire carcasses for sale in markets where supplies...
...That seemingly modest action was, in fact, a firm declaration of war against the nation's estimated 4.8 billion rat population, which outnumbers humans by a ratio of 8 to 1. Those are unfair odds. India's rats are believed to eat or destroy almost half the grain consumed in India-100 million tons; moreover, the rats are disease carriers, profligate breeders and just plain pests...
Never small. India's rat problem has become urgent in recent times. The reason is that India, with a bumper crop of 114 million tons of grain last year, wants to stockpile 15 million tons against possible bad times ahead. The size of the crop far outruns the country's storage capacity; much of the grain has been piled up in impromptu warehouses, like unused college buildings, where the rats are having a field day. Hence the need for more snakes. Curiously, both animals are considered sacred-and thus inviolable in some regions. Even though India has conducted...
Drought-Prone. There is ample evidence, the CIA report contends, that the new era is already under way. In the early '60s crop failures hit India and Central Asia, causing major economic and political changes. India had to import massive quantities of U.S. grain, and poor farm yields in the Soviet Union undermined the power of Premier Nikita Khrushchev and contributed to his downfall. The Soviets also suffered agricultural disasters in 1972 and 1974. The drought-prone countries of sub-Saharan Africa have not yet recovered from a recent six-year period of little or no rain. Rice shortages...