Nanking, Aug. 3.
The results of the first offciat attempt at crop reporting in C: hina fare summarised ina monograph just issued by the National Agri. cultural Research Bureau of the Ministry of Industries.
Before the Chinese Government took up this work attempts had been made by foreign commercial agencies and shipping firms fo fore cast and estimate the production of crops that enter into China's foreign trade, but as these estimates were made' for private commercial purposes, they have not been published, 'According to data supplied to the National Agricultural Research Bureau by a large army of voluntary crop reporters in eighteen provinces Gfanchuria, Jehol, Kwangsi, Kwel chow, Ninghsia, Chinghai and Hsi kang' excluded), the total acreage devoted to, and production of, various important crops in 1993 are as follow:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.