European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 08, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                69 Ahi Dur in 10w stars and stripes daily Magazine population by the associated press year 2000just 31 Earth Sun j. Revolutions away is Likely to remarked by a huge increase in the human family. Evidence indicates that the present world population of about 3.5 billion will have doubled by the time we reach the 21st Century. The world s population has been in creasing steadily for centuries but the growth rate is  the Earth feed this quickly grow ing number of people it was t too Long ago that expert opinion indicated that food production was not keeping Pace with the expand ing population and that the world face Large scale famine. Among those expounding the pessimistic viewpoint Werder. B. R. Sen the director general of the food and agriculture organization president Lyndon Johnson and . Secretary of agriculture Orville , in recent months the official attitude seems to have turned around concerning the food population problem. In a review of the world food situation released in August 1967about 17 months after Freeman s earlier warn rings the . Department of agriculture announced the combined excess food production capacity of All the developed countries in 1980 will be More than adequate to provide for the in creased food import needs of the less developed countries. This is Likely even if the less developed countries do no improve their rates of growth in Grain  May be an Overly optimistic indication balancing the Overly pessimistic ones of the past. The truth maybe somewhere in Between but there Are growing feelings that the tide is turning in the War on hunger. This is thought to be particularly True among the so called underdeveloped nations. These emerging nations Are inthe throes of agricultural revolution fuelled by super productive new hybrid Grain varieties developed by . Foundations at research centers in the Philippines and Mexico. Hey have had astonishing Impact in a Short period. Food production experts in and out of government now feel that the technology can now assure an nation self sufficiency. Pakistan for example the world s sixth most populous nation was famine frantic and depend ent on food help from other nations Justa few years ago. Now it is virtually  food population problem is by no Means solved but advances such a this have shown that it can be done. As promising As it May sound the sudden Spring Forward in agriculture leaves untouched the companion prob Lem of putting a Damper on the rising population , it will buy time they say and time is what today s feeble family planning programs need. We pm a per capita food i of production in the developing world saturday february 0, 1969 the stars and stripes