With regard to the control of these compulsory food pools, which would be
limited to wheat and olive oil, careful consideration should be given to
the following special project conceived by an expert:
All farm owners should be obliged to contribute to the wheat pools a given
quantity per hectare of their property (1 hectare= 10,000 square meters,
or 2.471 acers), it being understood that the only exception would apply
to the impervious zones of the mountains. The amount to be contributed by
hectare would vary according to the output of any particular zone and ,
therefore , it would not need to be uniform.
Failure to contribute to these compulsory wheat pools should involve
financial penalties or taxes on an increasing scale and even the
confiscation of the land. At the same time, farm owners might be allowed
to retain their wheat supplies and to deal therin on a free basis with the
understanding that each farmer, in case he does not wish to produce the
required quantity of whest, might purchase it and contribute it in his
o the general pool -even though it is obtained from other fa
The price of wheat available in this pool might be fixed at a special
level or reduced through adequate contributions in such a manner as to
include eventually any fiscal obligation attached to the estate, therby
simplifying the complex system of taxation.
The contry would thus be able to rely upon a fixed availability of wheat
and would have at its disposal the necessary quantities to tide over the
total requirments, even through imports from abroad.
THe flexibility which such a system would ensure would give the best
impulse to other agricultural activities whose output could thereby reach
a level which would be in line with its cost.
With regard to the olive oil pools, the production of the product could be
easily controlled through a rigorous supervision