SOUTH AMERICAN LANDS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 19 June 1926, Page 11

SOUTH AMERICAN LANDS

Resides Argentina with its enormous areas of plains and rolling downs Chile, which is generally pictured as a land of precipitous mountains, has 9.5.000,000 acres of arable la lid. About 15 million of these, if is estimated, are suitable for wheat, but only two mil lion at, present are devoted to its cultivation. The average yield is about .000,000 bushels a year. It has been officially stated that the republic could produce on an average 05.01)0.000 bushels. of which at least 20,000,000 coitlil be exported. Of late years the area devoted to agriculture in Uruguay has greatly increased and there are now over 2 million acres under cultivation in whatused to he considered a purely pastoral country. Of these about, half are sown with wheat, the growing of which is being continually extended with the help of up-to-date agricultural machinery. Of the other states, Colombia. Bnlivia. Venezuela, and Brazil are all considered to possess possibilities as wheat producers in the future. Each lias vast areas of land suitable for its cultivation, but at present hicks adequate transport facilities and organisation. These disabilities are, however, being gradually overcome.