—Lancaster Farminj. Saturday, Feb. 14. 1976
14
Maryland
produces
volume of food
ANNAPOLIS Maryland
farmers, despite a three
decade urban population
boom in their state which has
seen their numbers and their
farmlands shrink, still are
able to produce 56.5 percent
of the basic food needs of the
state.
This figure was cited by
Agriculture Secretary
Young D. Hance in noting
that Maryland is observing
“Maryland Agriculture
Week.”
Hance said, “I asked
Richard P. Parsons,
Director of the Maryland
Department of Agriculture’s
Division of Marketing, to
investigate the degree of
self-sufficiency potential we
have in Maryland in the
basic food groups.
“In summary, our dairy
industry has the present
capacity to supply our needs,
our poultry industry can put
more than enough chickens
on our tables, our vegetable
growers could supply about
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half our needs, wc could
make about half our flour but
we are rather short when it
comes to beef, pork and
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Here are the statistics:
POULTRY - Con
sumption, 170,900,000
pounds, ready to cook
chicken; production
531,182,000 pounds
production equals 310.8
percent of need. Turkey
consumption 35,300,000
pounds, production 560,000
pounds production equals
1.6 percent of need. Table
eggs consumption
97.300.000 dozen, production
8.988.000 dozen production
equals 9.2 percent of need.
DAIRY Consumption
(fluid milk, cheese, canned
milk, ice cream and butter)
1,384,000,000 pounds;
production 1,490,000,000
pounds - production equals
107.6 percent of need.
FRUITS Consumption
(fresh) 345,200,000 lbs.
(processed) 214,200,000;
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LESTER MILLER
TURBOTVILLE, PA
PHONE 649-5250
total ct rmunptlon 559,400,000
Ibi. I reduction (fresh)
64,720.100 (processed)
43,670,000 lbs.; total
production 108,390,000 lbs.
production equals 19.5
percent of need.
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lbs., (processed) 276,000,000; percent of need. Q r “ j
total consumption 895,100,000 RED MEATS - Beef and
lbs. Production (fresh) veal, consumption
54,410,000 lbs., (processed) 519,500,000 lbs., production
326,000,000 lbs.; total 47,848,000 Iba., - production equals 11.2 percent of need.
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