With view to ensuring se Tokyo, June
sufficiency in raw cotton in the future, the Overseas Ministry has formulated a three-year cotton programme aiming at annual cotton crops of 500,000,000 Ib.
In accordance with the programme, the Overseas Ministry has immediately taken the necessary steps to send 6,000,000 Ib. of cotton seeds to Tsingtao, 1,500,000 lb. to Shansi, and 3,000,000 lb. to Tientsin, which will be distributed through the North China Cotton Cultivation Association to cotton growers The Ministry has further embarked upon the technical guidance of cotton cultivation in Central China, with Shanghai and Nanking as the centre, and distributing approximately 1,000,- 000 lb. of cotton seeds through the newly-organized Cotton Cultivation and Improvement Society.—Reuter.
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