For "New Asia"
Japanese Government Will: Sponsor Scheme For Output Increase Tokyo, Apr. 27.
With Gen. Kuniaki Koiso, LJ.A.R., who gained fame as chief of staff of the Japanese Kwangtung Army, as its head, the Ministry of Overseas Affairs will soon play a prominent part in the economic development of the Asiatic continent under plans disclosed here yesterday. Gen. Koiso took over the overseas portfolio on April 7.
A ten-year plan to increase raw cotton production in Central and North China, and sheep wool in Manchoukuo and Inner Mongolia, has been drafted by the Ministry's experts. Conferences have been held between the Overseas Affairs Ministry, the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture, the East Asiatic Sheep Wool Asso-and the Japan Cotton Cuitivalation, over production expansion plans, which will be put into practice soon.
With the zim of morea ra cotton production in North China by 100,000 piculs, the ten-year plan will provide for technical and capital sup-Port to cotton growers in that area.
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