Foreign Agriculture: A Review of Foreign Farm Policy, Production, and Trade, 7. köideU.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1943 |
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acreage acres agricultural production amount Angola animals Australia average bananas barley beans belt breeding bushels calories cattle cents cereals China citrus coastal coffee colony commodities consumption corn cotton crops cultivation dairy DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE domestic economic Ejidal exports farm farmers fats feed feedstuffs fertilizer fish flour foodstuffs Foreign Agricultural Relations fruit goats Government grain grams grapes guano Guatemala hectares imports increased industry irrigation islands Italy kilograms kolkhoz labor land latifundia legumes lend-lease livestock loans Luanda meat metric tons miles milk million Ministry Mossâmedes National natives Nazis Office of Foreign operations pasture peasant percent plants population potatoes pounds pre-war Province Province of Messina rainfall reduced region rice rural season sheep short tons Sicilian Sicily soils square kilometers square miles sugar sugarcane supply TABLE tenant tion trade Ukraine United Kingdom vegetables wartime wheat White Russia
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