RUSSIAN AGRICULTURE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3222, 9 January 1917, Page 5

RUSSIAN AGRICULTURE.

In the agricultural production of the wor'd Russia holds a prominent • i c. Thus, out of a total world crop <> r the ft've principal cereals (wheat, rye. - oats barley, and maize), amount- •;•••■ :o 350,4000,000 tons (1909-10), to I'ii- i,i belongs more than 72,000,000 IC-. (i- more than one-fifth (aliout 21 "(*•• i*i*iit). The significance of this liu'irc is all the- greater when it is rcmi inhered that Russia occupies only i •(•■ Lxfh of the land of the globe, and only one-tenth of the world's copula: ion. The Russian crop of these live cereals is only 40 per cent, less than the crops of the same cereals in i 1 the remaining European States (except Turkey) put together. Russia's share ni the production of rye is especially gre:it, beini: more than half (51 per cent.) of the total world harvest: then cotne.s barley, 32 per cent.; oats, more than 24 per cent.; wheat, 22 ner cent.; and least of all, maize. Iwo per cent. The vast importance of agricultural product- in Russia's foreign trade i- still more evident. For example, in 1010, out of a total value of 1,449,000,000 roubles (£135,000,000 )for export.-, a-> much as £132,000,000. or B<i per cent., went to the share of agricultural products. From the>e ligure-; some idea may be gained of tihe influence exerted by these exports u|K>n the general financial condition of Russia,