Land Not the Solution: Too Little Available Nanking, Feb, 1.
general review. of the "farm tuna "Indices for China during' the lost twenty years shows that the! forming area is neither increasing for diminishing, states. the Notional Agricultural Research Bureau, The prevailing belief that" China! has large ares of land, that cane tivated, thereby solving the pop-! Julation problem, is "too optimistic." During the lant sixty" years, the Populalon has increased a1 per cent, Therese. the ares of farm land has Increased only ove per cent.
it is evident tat vast area in China cannot be profisbly tiled, and fe utaation tu other ways is tome-what" doubtful." Colonization in. the Torthwest has been frequently Urged, bat the question. is whether" or not the uncultivated areas can be Drott: ably "tue. "About 91" per cent. the land area covered by the survey is* "hot. "under cultivation, and nly '333. per cent of thie folal Suitable for" cultivation in other words, only 64 per cent of the land rea covered by the survey is arable bur ay present uncultivated Uncultivsted erable land. in China limited and consequently its uiiza:
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