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Agriculture '98
Locals aid starving families
Contributing to a world-wide effort
Local church members, farmers and business people donate time, supplies and money to
help provide grain to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
The plight of starving children
and families is one whiCh is viewed
regularly on television, with
numerous organizations requesting
assistance. However, there are local
and national groups who have been
contributing aid for many years.
The Canadian Foodgrains Bank
raises thousands of metric tonnes of
food and millions of dollars each
year to be distributed in more than
25 countries around the world
which suffer from drought, famine
or civil strife.
Church congregations in Londes-
boro and Blyth do their part each
year to add to the totals. Land has
been donated by Keith Allen, just
east of Londesboro and Canadian
Agra, north of Blyth.
The past year's contribution
amounted to $22,979.26, of which
most will be matched four to one
by the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA). The
gift of $115,000 will feed 1.2 mil-
lion people for one day or 3,500 for
a year.
The Canadian total in cash value
was $4.52 million.
While grains are a major compo-
Canada's contribution
-total value of grain and cash
donations last year, $4.52 million
-farmers donated 14,400 metric
tonnes (mt) of grain
-food assistance of 32,056 mt
was donated to 26 countries,
26,671 from shipments and 6,385
from purchases in country of des-
tination
-more than 300 volunteers from
Prairies and Ontario
-grain collection: B.C., .5 per
cent; Ontario., 17.7; Alberta, 21.8;
Saskatchewan, 32.3 and Manito-
ba, 27.8.
-105 growing projects in
Ontario last year, average size 15
acres
-21 growing projects in the
Prairies, average size 124 acres
Note: all information obtained
from Canadian Foodgrains Bank
nent of the foods gathered, several
other products are included. Corn,
soybeans, sunflowers, coloured
beans, sweet corn, apples are added
to the list of wheat, barley, oats and
canola.
Any other crop or livestock
which used the resources of Food-
grains is gratefully accepted.
The mission
Each year, the agency determines
which countries are most needy.
Recently, countries such as
Afghanistan and North Korea have
been added to the list.
While civil unrest and an internal
siege around Kabul have caused
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