Tokyo, June 7.
Claimed to indicate a successful overcoming of agricultural labour dislocation attendant upon the China conflict, a bumper wheat crop today was expected for this year by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Under present calculations, not only will Japan's domestic meeds be fully met from the home-grown crop, but between 13,000,000 and 14,000,000 bags of wheat should be available for export to Manchoukuo and North China, experts estimated.
Surveys of crops in 38 out of 48 prefecture, besides the Hokkaido, on May 20 indicated that the wheat crop this year would reach 9,645,000 koku or 49,372,755 hushoes. This already represents a 213 increase over the total actual crop of last year and a 149 increase over the average crop for the last five years.
With the production in the still unreported areas expected to be normal the total crop was expected to reach 66,447,000 bushels.—Domei.
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