WORLD’S WHEAT PROBLEM.
NEARING THE PRESENT MAXIMUM PRODUCTION.
INTENSER CULTIVATION NECESSARY.
[UNITED PRESS A SSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] [TIMES—SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES.] LONDON, Sept, 14. At the British Association, Professor Dixon said it was clear that the available proportion of the world’s-wheat supply from extensive sources had been reached. They must depend in the future upon intensive farming, with its greater demands for labor. .The area of 242,000,000 acres at present under wheat might be increased to_ 300,000,000 acres. Thus the earth .might filially be able to feed permanently 1,000,000,000 wheat eaters. Intensive cultivation would cause greater equalisation in distribution of population.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3438, 16 September 1913, Page 5
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99WORLD’S WHEAT PROBLEM. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3438, 16 September 1913, Page 5
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