One of the main proposals' of the Manchoukuo Government is to, improve the agricultural wealth of Manchutia by taking mieasnres to increase the sown area of the country and to introduce a system agriculture which would get better results than are obtained at the present time.
As agriculture is the base of the rural economy of Manchuria, the Increase of agricultural products should be in those which at the present time are imported from broad, thus making Manchoukuo more independent of other countries, at the same time giving more prosperity to the peasant masses rising their living maximum.
As is well known, the quality of soya_bean has considerably fallen Guring the last few years, owing to the lack of proper control over the farms and the absence of experienc~ fed men to teach the peasant how to crops in such a rumanner as nae hem tore, valuable thes they are at present. The crop than the¥ a lat present in excess SOUR aulcemente of the, country itself, and as prices all over the world are exceedingly low, the st plus is difficult to sell, while bean Bland bean cakes are' not in such feat demande they. wore i fo Jen! Jertlisors instead of eakescorn the Japanese using chen
"The Government proposes to in-cretan the development" of tobacco, tempe groundnuts, casigr-all plant sugar troot, and probably other eatots which are of present. be
with flits purpose in. view expe pared toa cava ant a mental fields have been established in the districts of Keshan and' Woke, "Ae the Same time the Government also proposes to increase rice culture in the valleys of the rivers Hohe and Songer, making use of the water of these) rivers for irrigation.
Yurther itis proposed to increase ent wee ner Cotton cultivation 300,000 fsio (tsia equals 2.45 200.000, that ay annual production of 150,000,000 bales of cotton should be 'To carry out 1 these proposals ix wilh be necenary Ao, pen Special agricultural societies and Foanelal organisations which will be avi Well as. the sowing. of able to we peasant class with fpeuins' and with credit. at specially {ow rates of interest. cent, of the export of Manchuria]
"At the present moment 60 per Consists of beans and by-products of Beans, while in import, food stuffs occupy 17-18 per cent, of the total, tobacco 3.5 to 4 per cent., and cotton 4 to 5 per cent.
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