AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE. 
WHEAT AND RYE SITUATION 1921. 
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According to ''Zahranicni Obchod" the total 1921 net imports 
of wheat and wheat flour calculated to a wheat basis amounted to 
19,000,000 bushels. During this period Czechoslovakia also imported 
3,424,000 bushels of rye as grain and flour. The statistical require- 
ment of the Republic was only 9,674,000 bushels of bread cereals, 
as indicated in Table 91 : 
This excess importation of 12,750,000 bushels is due not only to 
an increased wheat consumption, but to the fact that the foreign 
exchange value of the Czechoslovak crown nearly doubled during 
1921 so that foreign wheat and flour could be bought at about half 
price of the native product and there was probably a heavy over- 
stocking as indicated in the 1922 situation. 
Table 91. — Bread-cereal balance in Czechoslovakia, 1921. 
Wheat. 
Rye. 
Area seeded 
1,000 acres. . 
1,557 
40,658 
4,631 
2,226 
Production 
1,000 bushels. . 
55,764 
Seed 
do.... 
7,091 
do.... 
do.... 
Net production 
Estimated food requirement • 
36,027 
44,654 
48,673 
49,720 
-8,627 
-1,047 
-8,627 
Statistical deficit in bread cereals 
-9,674 
1 Population as given on p. 68. 
WHEAT AND RYE SITUATION, 1922. 
Based upon the rate of consumption used in computing the fore- 
going balance, there is a shortage of 20,300,000 bushels of bread 
cereals for the crop season 1922-23, as compared with 10,000,000 
bushels for the same period 1920-21. The actual import during 
the calendar year of 1922 was 10,368,000 bushels of wheat and flour 
calculated to a wheat basis and a net import of 926 bushels of rye 
as grain and flour. This import of 11,294,000 bushels of bread 
cereals was 9,006,000 bushels below the estimated statistical deficit 
indicated in Table 92. 
Table 92. — Bread-cereal balance in Czechoslovakia, 1922. 
Wheat. 
Rye. 
1,000 acres.. 
1,527 
33,621 
4,535 
2,218 
Production 
1,000 bushels.. 
52,041 
do.... 
7,075 
do.... 
do.... 
do.... 
Net production 
Estimated food requirement 
29,086 
14,654 
44,966 
49,720 
-15,568 
-4,754 
-15,568 
-20,322 
This increased shortage is due chiefly to the great falling off in 
yield per acre for both wheat and rye (see Tables 89 and 90), 
although there was also a minor shrinkage in area. 
