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Table 1*3«-Jap€m: Tobacco Acreage, production, and 

 yield per acre, IS8U-I937 - Cont'd 



Tear : 



beArinnlng t 

 July : 



Acreage 



• 

 • 



! Production 

 t 



: Yield per acre 



I92U s 



1925 J 



1926 J 

 1P27 ! 

 1928 j 



[ Acree 

 1 9^.770 

 1 91,1^2 

 t 90,2U6 



1 92,156 



Pounds 



lUo,^57.501 

 lU3.42U,662 

 138,481,9^9 

 1'50.122.1'50 

 140,483.876 



Pounds 

 1,U83 

 1.568 



1.53^ 

 1.647 



1.524 



1929 1 



1930 ! 



1931 

 1932 

 1933 



i 88,326 



5 89,033 



5 90,273 

 5 83.5^3 

 t 83.655 



136,211.517 

 150,183.053 

 150,709,571 

 1^3,611.251 

 146,694,397 



1.5^2 

 1.687 



1.669 



1.754 



193H 



1935 

 1936 

 1937 



1938 



i 8U,6l7 

 : 86,cM 

 : 87,000 

 J 85,000 



145,451,649 

 142.261,623 

 ij3t358,ooo 

 1^2,375,000 



1.719 

 1,653 

 1.533 

 1.675 



Compiled from Resume Statistique de L*lmplre da Japon; Statistical 

 Abstract of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry; and Internation- 

 al Institute of Agriculture. 



Table 1*^,-China: Tobacco acreage, production, and 

 yield per acre, 1933-36 1/ 



Year i 

 beginning ; 

 July ! 



Acreage 



: Production 



• 

 • 



: Yield per acre 

 t 



1933 i 



Acres 

 1,304,688 



Pounds 

 1,388,677,5^0 



Pounds 

 1,054 



1934 < 



1935 1 



1936 J 



1937 ! 



1938 I 



i 1.292.333 

 t 1,35^.108 

 \ 1,344.224 



l,326,9H8,7Uo 

 1,392.866,280 

 1»^. 330.200 



1.027 

 1,029 

 1,045 



years, but it is believed that something near the present hi^ produc- 

 tion has been grown for a number of years* Practically all 

 tobacco in China is produced by small farmers i»ho grow only small 

 patches. The average tobacco acreage per farm in important producing 

 districts is only about 0.7 of an acre. The average yield for 

 all China is approximately 1,500 pounds per acre." Report to the 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics, May 1936. 

 Compiled from International Institute of Agriculture, 



