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...story of China's stunning improvement in farm production is comprehensively told in a new 462-page book called Feeding a Billion (Michigan State University Press; $30). Its authors are Sylvan Wittwer, director emeritus of the Michigan State University Agricultural Experiment Station, and three Chinese farm experts: Professor Sun Han of Nanjing Agricultural University, Professor Yu Youtai of Northeast Agricultural College in Harbin and Wang Lianzheng, vice governor of Heilongjiang province. Wittwer, the principal writer, made five trips to China during the past seven years and received unstinting cooperation from the Communist authorities in undertaking an in-depth study...
...Wittwer and his co-authors maintain that most of the progress took place after 1978, when Deng began economic reforms by breaking up collective farms and introducing market incentives into agriculture. Since that time, per capita food consumption has risen by almost...
...suffered a crop shortfall two years ago, they did not slaughter cattle to conserve grain (as they had done in 1963), but instead they imported 28 million tons of corn, wheat and soybeans. So long as the industrial nations continue to favor meat over direct grain consumption, says Sylvan Wittwer, Michigan State University agricultural economist, "the sky is the limit for food demand...
...attended the State Democratic convention in Aberdeen. That decided him that the whole trouble with the country was professional politicians, who, controlling the votes of non-property owners, the ignorant, the vagrant, the parasitic, dominated elections at the expense of home owners. Mr. Wittwer sat down and thought till he thought up a cure: give an extra vote to every man who can show a tax receipt for a home or a piece of property.* The name Otto Wittwer gave to his system for knocking out the politicians : the One-Two Plan...
Last week in Southern California, where panaceas grow like seedless oranges, his One-Two Plan began to bloom, on the radio, on the platforms of clubs and societies, in gatherings of small rural home owners, little business men. Mr. Wittwer aimed to complete a nationwide organization by 1940. Soon Otto Wittwer hopes to be more content with the way things are going...