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       These figures will go up or down according to the 
 
development of weather conditions and possibilities of 
 
cultivation, the labor available, etc., in Germany and the 
 
occupied territories.
 
3.
 
     No opinion as to the stated as to the winter wheat. The 
 
damage done during the winter appears to be less, however, 
 
than in 1940.
 
       For 1941 the plans for cultivation have been made. 
 
Their accomplishment depends on the provision of farm labor 
 
and machinery, fertilizer and the further course of war de-
 
mands..
 
     The shortage of  and a half million farm laborers
 
is to be made up for by agricultural workers from Poland 
 
and other eastern states, prisoners of war fron the west, 
 
etc., However, the lack of agricultural overseers remains 
 
a decisive factor.
 
          The supply of horses and farm machinery is inadequate. 
 
The machine industry can not supply tractors and other
 
machines.  Systematic joint use of the machinery available 
 
is to fill in the gaps.
 
     The plan for cultivation is to keep the areas under
cultivatlon for grains hltherto and also to open new areas
 
to cultivatlon for a larger yield of root crops, such as
potatoes, sugar beets and feeding-stuffs containing proteins.