The Archive · 1939

Double Harvests

Government Grants Funds to Buy German Equipment fuente, come mostly, fror ud ug; Kwangtung is but Breslau, May 12.

Transition of the Bulgarian agriculture from a single to double harvest each year was the subject of exhaustive German-Bulgarian economic negotiations in Breslau following the annual Breslau Fair. To modernize the Bulgarian agriculture the Bulgarian Government has alloted a the rest," said Mr. Chang, Institute is always here to The Institute has just sixth anniversary, and that more and by Chinese stu-the help it can, sum of 100,000,000 lowa for the purpose of purchasing from Germany equipment for artificial irrigation for use in South Bulgaria, by which plant growth can be greatly stimulated in May and August, so that instead of only one harvest per year two will be possible. This is particularly fensible with, crops like flax and cotton yielding textile fibres.

In the districts in question, water for these irrigation operations could be kept plentiful even during the dry months of the year by building dams on rivers and holding water in vast reservoirs, These irrigation plants, which in some cases work at pydrostatie pressure of as much as eight atmospheres, will be delivered chiefly by German firms. Payment for these deliveries should make no insuperable difficulty as the doubling of the harvests in South Bulgaria will create a new export for the Bulgarian agriculture to Germany which already takes 70 per cent, of the Bulgarian "Appointed to exports, Germany is prepared to accept payment in the form of increased deliveries of agricultural produce, o, May—Trans-Ocean. of Mr. Yankichi ut of the Yoko-as Governor of

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