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Road Transport's Field in Agriculture

27th June 1958, Page 40
27th June 1958
Page 40
Page 40, 27th June 1958 — Road Transport's Field in Agriculture
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ESPITE Britain's enormous and growing pro ductivity in other directions, agriculture remains one of our most important industries. In fact it is vital to the well-being and economic life of the nation. To look at the records indicating the flow of agricultural workers into other occupations and places of living it might, however, be thought likely that it is gradually deteriorating.

Fortunately, an increasing degree of mechanization has, to a large extent, offset this loss of personnel. Moreover, it has removed much of the drudgery of former times and to a certain extent may have persuaded the more-technically minded workers to remain. It is to be hoped that eventually this effect may increase, perhaps aided by the installation of television receivers and other amenities which are putting the agricultural worker more on a par with his brother in town or city.

In the advancement of agricultural methods and means, road transport, in a great variety of forms, is playing its part to a steadily increasing extent. On the passenger side alone it has brought the farming communities within much easier reach of the more densely inhabited areas. Incidentally, for this reason, it is of the utmost importance that every effort should be made to obviate reductions in this facility, which might have dire effects.

There is, however, a growing demand for the carriage by road of agricultural produce to the markets, and of machines, 'fodder, chemical fertilizers, seeds and many other.classes of load to the farms. Even the mobile shop is adding its good offices to bring to the farming community essential goods and foodstuffs, and thus save time-wasting journeys to the static emporiums.

As regards the road transport of goods and produce, the farmer also benefits by reductions in the taxation of his motor vehicles and certain facilities in connection with their licensing under the 1933 Act. Some people, indeed, think that he has been given rather too much in the latter direction—a matter which is discussed at some length in certain articles in this issue.

There is no need to particularize here as to the many other activities in which commercial vehicles of many types are proving of inestimable value to agriculture. Most of them are covered in the pages which follow.

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