A GIANT HARVEST.
Mussolini’s Ambition May be Realised. ROME, September 30. Mussolini’s aim of making Italy independent of grain imports bids fair to be realised when the wheat crop is harvested this year. The harvest, the Italian Premier announces, will reach 276,000,000 bushels, the largest in Italy’s history and an increase of 250 per cent over pre-war totals. The average yield is expected to be 22 bushels to the acre, as compared with 15 bushels twenty years ago. It is claimed that this result is not due to an increase in acreage, but to more intensive and scientific cultivation of the grain under the spur of Mussolini’s “ battle of grain ” schetpe.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 578, 7 October 1932, Page 1
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111A GIANT HARVEST. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 578, 7 October 1932, Page 1
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