The Archive · 1938

Farm Comparisons

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percent ana Oro per cant ros Wheat And Rice 'The survey divides China into two main agricultural regions, the wheat-growing and the Fice-growing, cor-Fesponding roughly to. the northern' and the southern sections of the coun. try with an imaginary line running. feast-west somewhere through the Hwai River valley in Anhwei These: two regions have their distinct characteristic, 18 per cent. of the land ig Irrigated in the wheat region as against 62 per cent. in the rice region. Farms In the wheat region are larger than In the rice region. Two farmers own Jand they till in the wheat retion as compared with one farmer in the rice region. Double-cropping is more common in the rice region than in the wheat region. Famines occur more frequently in the wheat region than in the rice region, due to the] former's low and variable rainfall. Production in the wheat region is four-fifth of that in the rice region. Waxes and land values are higher in the rice region than in the wheat region, Population density is higher in the rice than in the wheat region and are tes fey

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