FEW REQUIRED ON FARMS
In a modernized agriculture only a comparatively few of the people of the nation are required on farms. It is customary to look upon Argentina as a great farming country.- It is indeed ; but at the same time it is not solely a great farming community. A table recently compiled there provides an amazing commentary upon the industrial, farming ami other means of livelihood afforded in this Republic, one that not only furnishes a rich table to its people, but is a world renowned exporter of farming products. Here are returns for the 1940 year, showing the means whereby employment is afffforded jn this "great farming coun-
So one finds that less than one-fifth of the country’s workers are _ employed in farming. Certainly farming supports largely the others. In the case of commerce and transport particularly there is a large dependence; and to some extent is this so iu industry, both in the processing of exports aud the provision of farm equipment aud supplies.
try.” Persons. Industries Agriculture uud livestock 2,770,000 48.3 (fanning) 1,050,000 18.3 Commerce 750,000 13.1 Transport 160,000 2.8 Miscellaneous 1,000,000 17.5 Total ' 5,730,000 100.0
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 5
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191FEW REQUIRED ON FARMS Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 5
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