WORLDS FOOD FIGURES.
POPULATION NOT GROWING SO FAST AS WHEAT. There is a valuable discussion of the relation of wheat area and population in the British Board ''of Agriculture statistics 13sued at the end of November. The conclusion- ie that the data, though incomplete, do not appear to suggest- any imminent ri3k •of a eerioua shortage in the world c wheat supply other than that arising. from temporary causes, -n . , , j The increases per cent, m wheat area ana in population since 1881 are shown thus: — PopulaWheat. tion. 13 European countries ..28 26 TT.S. and Argentine . .' .. 60 68 Canada and Australia .. 120 51 Average increase per cent 42 33 j or, in other words, excluding minor coun- j tries of Europe, Asiatic Russia, and India, i the expansion of wheat-growing in the last , 26 year* *"»- V>een faster than the, growth 'f population. ! In Grea.+ Britain notable, and in some I other countries, that, of course, has not | been the case, as shown in the following j table of percentages: — Wheat, tion. | Decrease. Increase. ! Britain 40 25 I Belgium 41 31 j France 7 4 PopulaWheat. tion. Increase. Increase. Austria, . . ,-.. 16 23 G-ernviTiy .. 6 34 Hungary 46 29 Kussia " (Europe) 66 34
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Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 9
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201WORLDS FOOD FIGURES. Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 9
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