Britain's £36 million peanut farm harvested less than it planted

In 1946, with Britain still on wartime rationing and short of cooking fat, Clement Attlee's government approved a plan to plant peanuts across 3 million acres of Tanganyika, a stretch of bush roughly the size of Yorkshire, and turn the crop into margarine. - Read the rest

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