UN General Assembly
1965

65. Up to now, in discussing South and South-East Asia, I have referred to specific problems of a security nature. But it is most important that we also have clearly in mind, and take measures to meet, some of the needs of economic and social development and well-being in the region. I draw the Assembly's attention to the Economic Survey of Asia and the Far East for 1964, which has been circulated among us in the last few days. One of the conclusions of the Survey is that agricultural production in the region of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East [ECAFE] showed a significant recovery for the first time since 1961. The increase in food production from 1961 to 1964 in those countries was considerably below the rate of population growth, and the per capita food production in 1964 was below the 1961 level.