Reviewing China's harvest last year, Mr. Wu recalled that the total output of rice reached 871,002,000 piculs which was an increase of 465,000 piculs over the output of the year before, The increase of output in whea curing last year was more remarkable. The total output for 1936, Mr. Wu said, was 461,555,000 piculs, an increase of 35,503,000 piculs over the preceding year.
On the above basis, Mr. Wu said, every Chinese people would be able io secure two piculs of rice and one plew of wheat on last year's harvest alone, To prove the stability of the rice price in various localities, Mr.. Wu quoted the following table:
June Early July Last week per picul per picul per picul Changsha $810—$707—S87: Nanchang—227 131 150 Wuhu 812 sa 840
Wusih 1044—1044 Nanking 845 8.77 850
Mr. Wu predicted another bountecus harvest of rice this autumn, as the absence of flood along the Yangtze valley had especially been favourable to. the growth of this cereal,
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