Continuing the project of wheat improvement started four years ago with 248 rural tamiles participating, the number of farmers ce-operating this Autumn is2018, This rapid devel-lopment has been realized largely means of the organization in the Autumn of 1934 of the Ningshu Crop! Improvement Society, when a programme was mapped out for extending the cultivation of two varieties improved wheat In three districts ground. Nanking, with Yinhsiang, Hsunhuachen and Tangshan as the: distributing centres.
The Bank of China provided the necessary funds amounting to $26,000 te finance the project; the Agricultural College of Nanking University furnished the seed, 196,577 catties, while the Central Agricultural Exten-Sion Commission and the Ningsbu Agricultural Relief Association' organized the participating farmers: nto 99 societies and gave technical field supervision. This Autumn more than 19420 mow of land was planted. with this "improved seed, which. Usually yields upwards of 20 per cent. more han seed ordinarily used hitherto.
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