A ten-year plan for the production of raw cotton in China will be launched this year by the Ministry of Industry in the "Reformed Government," with Kiangsu, Chekiang, and Anhwei provinces expected to increase their annual production by 5,000,000 piculs, according to the Nanking edition of the "Shanghaj Mainichi" yesterday.
Central China regions produce more than a quarter of the total cotton output of China, the daily said. During the past three years the Yangtze valley region has turned out 5,270,000 piculs of raw cotton annually, the journal remarked.
Supervision of the proposed plan will be in the hands of the Cotton Production Control Committee in the Ministry of Industry, the paper said Sino-Japanese collaboration, and Governmental subsidies, as well as the improvement of technical skill in the production of cotton, will be sought by the Committee.
Experimental cotton fields and a school for training leaders in cotton agriculture will be established by the Committee.
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