WORLD'S GRAIN PRODUCTION

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 213, 5 September 1912, Page 8

WORLD'S GRAIN PRODUCTION

SOME REMARKABLE STATISTICS. The 'world's grain statistics for them* 1911. which have just betn published, at* full of interest to the student of the world* economics. They contain many surprise*. not the least of them the fact that the world's production of the principal grslta, wheat, oats, and barley, has, during a period of five years, only increased-by 417.083 bushels, or barely 5 per cent of tii total production. It . will : also come as a surprise to many that old • Europe to producing Jn every Instance -.-more thai-tie rest of the whole world pnt together. '55 of the total of 3,575.748,000 bushels « wheat, Europe produces alone 1J»2,T73,00(r, out of 3.730,302.000 bushels oate. 2,423," 107.000: out of 1.382,908,000 bushels barter. 1,012,439,000 bushels. v> * Bnshele. Total Europe 5,338318,000 Total rest of the wortd .... 3,850,839,(100 Grand total 8,688,158,000 The following .table of the participation of the various countries is also very interesting—only countries with a production of over one handred million buehelir are here considered: — WHEAT. Basheb. North America. inclusive Canada 621,838,000 Russia in Europe „ 509,484,000 Br. India 370,414,000 France ..._ 330,142,000 Aust. Hungary „.„... 251.923,009 South America _ 218,748,000 Canada _„ 215351,000 Italy 192,387.01)6 Germany 150,053,000 Spain , 148,487,000 OATS. Bushels. . North America, Inclusive Canada fl22£K,out> Russia in Europe 807,914,000 Germany 502307,000 Canada ~ 348,188.000 France 329,676,000 Aust. Hnngarj- 237,263,006 United Kingdom 182,562,06!> BARLEY. Bushels. , . North America l«W40,OOe Aust.. Hungary 150,027,00» Germany ;.... 145,202.009 No statistics of Siberian and Central Asia production are available later than 190 S. for which year they are stated to be: Wheat. 60 million; oats, 118 million; barley, 10 million.