Peru is anxious to sell her cotton to someone other than Japan.
One way out of this dilemma is to turn Peru from. cotton growing to other occupations. This the Petuvian government is trying to do. A campaign has been begun to replace cotton with flax.
Increased production of food is being encouraged by irrigation ana building of roads to markets. Seeds have been imported for the scientific planting of rubber. Processing of quinine and other medicinal plants, mining of strategic materials needed by the United <States, organization of a fishing industry, and expansion of industry' are either projected or underway.
Such a swing from one economic basis to another taker years to acnorth to do something about
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