title: Use of the potato and its by-products and other waste materials in feeding farm animals in Central Europe
title: The use of the potato and its by-products and other waste materials in feeding farm animals in Central Europe
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Fila, W. J.
Publisher: name: University of Edinburgh
Year: 1961
Subjects: subject: Agriculture
subject: Food shortage
subject: By-products
subject: Population
subject: Protein substitutes

description: Central Europe was for centuries considered to be mainly an agricultural area and traditionally exported various foodstuffs to the most industrious western countries. As the result of the second World War, considerable changes have taken place in the arrangement of national boundaries, population, industries and policies in that part of Europe. During the last two decades the shortage of food in countries like Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Eastern Germany was quite serious which means that despite fourteen years of post-war struggle the food problem is not solved there yet. In Poland alone today - 1959/1960 - meat is very scarce, causing serious disquiet amongst the people. Standard food products and feedingstuffs are no longer sufficient and scientists and other people concerned are trying to find suitable substitutes to fill that gap. Various plant and animal products and waste materials are used to increase the supply of food for the fast growing population. Considering that every year some 59 million people are added to the World’s total population or in other words that tomorrow there will be at the table some 160,000 more people having their food than today, and Central Europe is taking its full share in it, it may be of considerable importance to all countries, even comparatively wealthy Great Britain, to watch the progress in utilising various by-products for the cheaper production of foods like meat, fat, butter, cheese, eggs etc. Central European countries grow a great number of acres of potatoes and apart from using them in great quantities for human consumption, a considerable amount is used for various industrial processes such as the production of alcohol, starch, drying, etc. During these processes, various by-products are obtained, which together with other waste materials are being utilised for the feeding of domestic animals and thus for the increase of food production. As potatoes and their by-products are poor in proteins, it was necessary to introduce materials rich in protein. For that purpose, apart from leguminous plants etc., the small fish and fish industry by-products are used, which together with potatoes and their by-products properly processed provide a very promising diet for most of the domestic animals . As about three quarters of the Earth’s surface is covered by water with a limitless amount of fish available to any country, they are now being utilised in various forms for the increase of foodstuffs in Central Europe. Even the dead organic matter from the bottom of lakes etc. is being investigated and its suitability as food material tested. My investigation deals with these problems and for that purpose I have studied a considerable number of books and publications from central European countries in the original languages or translated into Russian, Polish or English. Quite a number of those publications were not easily available in this country and I had to use various ways and means to obtain them. The relevant bibliography is given at the end.