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 Of all the agricultural exports to Japan Proper, the unrefined sugar stands at the head, its 

 value being 28,000,000 yen a year. Rice follows next and amounts to 10,000,000 j/<^« in value. 

 Among the exports to foreign countries, tea is the staple one and calculated at j poo poo yen. 

 The unrefined sugar, amounting to 1,800,000 yen in value, is next in order. The brand of tea, 

 exported abroad, is the Oolong and goes to the United States principally. 



II. AGRICULTURE IN CHOSEN 



The total area of arable land in Chosen is estimated at 2,8co,ooo cho., of which 1,000,000 cho 

 is paddy field and the rest, i, 800,000 cho in extent, upland field. When compared with the area 

 of the whole peninsula, it is no more than 12.4 per cent. ; so it stands to reason that there is 

 much room for the further increase of it. At the end of 191 2, there were 2,430,000 farming 

 households, the population of which was 1 1 ,600,000. Of this, 4,383 households, the population 

 of which was 14,505, were Japanese settlers. The affairs regarding immigration and the develop- 

 ment of the resources of Chosen are entrusted with the management of the Oriental Development 

 Company, which was established under the special protection of the Government. 



The sorts of agricultural products are almost the same as those of Japan Proper, and rice comes 

 first. Then, wheat, beans, and Indian millet in order. The acreage of the lands under cultivation 

 and outputs of principal argicultural products of the year 1912 were as follows : — 



