Let us pay a brief visit to the Pel-hsia Mass Education Experiment TRU MEM) which is one several demonstrations carried on by the Mass Education College through its department of research and. exerimentation, and see how its ideals are put into Peishsia is about an hour's ricksha ride from Wusih, and is the place which which produces the finest grade of rice in Kiangsu province. an area of about 138 square It and population of 27,164 who live in 342 small villages. Seventy-two per cent of these people are illiterate. Of the farming population (less than twenty er cent are shopkeepers, peddlers and labourers), eighteen per cent own the land they till, thirty-six per cent are semi-landowners, and sixteen per cent are tenant-farmers. The total size cultivated land in Pel-hsia is 43 '588 mow (about 7.26 mow per family), and the principal products are rice, wheat and silk, Domestic industries, bboen of much importance to here. This is clearly indicated by the fact that while in Denmark the average farmer has two pigs, in Pel-hsia he has only one-tenth of @ pig. Such is the area in which the department of research and experimentation of the Wusih college has been attempting to carry out a three-fold reconstructive program since 1982.
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