Nanking, July 27.
An afforestation law has been drafted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Mines to meet the pressing need for forestry development and the reorganization of forest administration in the country. The Ministry, in a petition to the Executive Yuan, requests that the Legislative Yuan should give early consideration to [the proposed Inw.
China being fundamentally an agricultural country, instructions have also been sent to the provine cial governments by the Ministry recommending that at least 20 per cent. of the total annual budzat for the 19th fiscal year of the Re-Public should be earmarked for the development of agricultural enterprises.—Kuo Min,
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