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Rice (Production).

(B) STATISTICS SHOWING THE GROWTH IN TRADE OF THE TROPICAL AFRICAN DEPENDENCIES. I. WEST AFRICA. Total Trade, 1923-25.

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Year. j Foreign Countries. j Quantity. Year. I Empire Countries. | Quantity. j | i Tons. [ Tons, fj Bulgaria .. .. 10,000 | f British Guiana .. 41,900 | Spain .. .. 301,100 ! 1924 Borneo .. .. 100 1925 | Serb-Croat-Slovene State 1,200 j ! Brunei .. .. 500 | Italy.. .. .. 619,400 / Ceylon .. .. 250,000 I i Portugal .. 15,500 j ' \ British India .. .. 46,750,100 1924 | Costa Rica .. .. I 3,800 | f Straits Settlements and 359,500 1925 $ United States .. .. 689,100 1924 ■{ Malay States " J \j Guatemala .. .. 700 : ; Nyasaland .. .. 300 1925-26 Dutch Guiana .. .. 9,800 j 1925 Fiji Islands :. .. ! 5,600 1925 Mexico .. .. 22,600 1924 Trinidad and Tobago .. j 2,500 1924 Salvador .. .. 9,800 1925 Sierra Leone .. .. j 270,000 1925 Korea .. .. 2,629,400 1924 French Possessions in India 20,500 j f Formosa .. .. 1,146,800 1925 French Indo-China .. 5,671,000 1 Japan .. .. 10,626,000 j 1924 " Kwang-Tung .. .. 1,800 1Q9H 5 Philippines .. .. 1,328,100 \ Siam .. .. .. 4,869,200 j 1924 French West Africa .. 53,100 ) 1924-25 Argentina .. .. 11,600 1924-25 Brazil .. .. 799,100, 1924-25 I Paraguav .. .. 2,500 1923-24 | Peru..' .. ' 64,100 1925-26 Java and Madura . ; 4,793,200 1925-26 I Madagascar .. .. 1,023,600 1925 Egypt .. .. 128,700 Total, foreign countries 34,851,700 Total, Empire countries 47,680,500 (excluding China) Note.—The quantity of rice produced in China, almost wholly consumed at home, is estimated at between .'10,000,000 and 40,000,000 tons annually. As very little of the Chinese production becomes available for consumption outside that country, it has been ignored in the present computation. World's production (excluding China) = 82,532,200 tons.

1923. 1925. Gross Trade. Net Trade. Gross Trade. j Net Trade. ! ! , I £ ' £ £ £ Nigeria .. .. .. 23,466,864 21,072,791 33,648,510 31,684,005 Gold Coast .. .. .. 17,408,075 ! 15,271.173 20,672,842 18,606,774 Gambia .. .. .. 1,713,407 1,652,949 1,345,638 1,300,122 Sierra Leone .. . . .. 3,557,206 3,007,259 : 3,999,096 3,569,230 46,145,552 41,004,172 59,666,086 j 55,160,131 Note.—Net trade — gross trade less bullion and specie, and re-export trade,