Lanterna Rally

Author: U. S. Foreign Agricultural Service

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-10

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9781528598224

Excerpt from Foreign Agriculture, Vol. 3: A Review of Foreign Farm Policy, Production, and Trade; October 1939 More than 80 percent of China's vast population are engaged in farming as their principal means of livelihood. The great majority of farmers derive a very small income and therefore have a low standard of living. The standards of South China are above those of North China. The warm climate in the south permits food production the entire year, whereas in the north the country people must obtain their living almost entirely from summer crops. The diet of the Chinese people has been adapted to the agricultural produc tion of the various regions in which they live. Rice, the basic crop of the country. Is the principal food for more than 60 percent of the Chinese people. Americans have frequently expressed their sympathy for the Chinese because they have to live on rice and have no other food. The fact is, however, that the Chinese people con sider a rice diet an indication of a high standard of living and feel prosperous when they can afford to eat rice three times a day. Approximately HO percent of the Chinese population, mostly in northern and northwestern China, seldom, if ever, eat rice. Their principal food consists of millet, kaoliang (grain sorghum), wheat flour, corn, sweet potatoes, and various types of soybeans. Only a small amount of meat and practically no dairy products are consumed by the average Chinese family. The raising of livestock is only a byproduct in the Chinese agricultural industry. Protein in the Chinese diet is very largely obtained from vegetable oilseeds, such as soybeans and peanuts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.