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...life to help a new group of Volunteers who will be doing health education work full-time in the Ivory Coast. I lived with the local party secretary, who fed me--usually rice with mutton or fish. In the morning I turned to the supply of canned pineapple juce, corn flakes and evaporated milk I had brought with me. The week turned out to be little more than an endurance test, and I literally spent hours jjust sitting emptily while most of the villagers were off cultivating their fields. Folowing is the record of some of the more desperate moments...
...much of Latin America is mountainous, arid or tropical, less than 5% (v. 16% in the U.S.) of its more than 7,700,000 sq. mi. of land is under cultivation. Experts also cite antique farming methods. In Venezuela, primitive farms produce an average of two bushels of corn per acre, compared with 67 bushels on modern U.S. farms. Traditionally, holders of large estates do not cultivate more than necessary to earn an income suitable to their social status. But, as Bolivia and Mexico have discovered, land-reform programs that carve up productive estates into family-sized plots for often...
...News Agency, bring back to Red China an estimated $132 million each year in hard currency remitted by overseas Chinese to mainland relatives. The bank's London office is now handling transactions amounting to $52 million in pounds sterling, which Japan is paying for recent purchases of Chinese corn, rice and soybeans. Communist branches also give generous loans to importers who handle Chinese goods...
Love Those Mangoes. Sugar is no longer rationed, as it was in 1963. Just about everything else still is-either that, or it appears on a feast-or-famine basis. "Right now," says one resident, "they've got so much corn they can't unload it. They keep saying: 'Eat corn, eat corn.'" Before that, it was eggs, then avocados, then mangoes. "We must find a way to use our mangoes-every single one," pleaded the Communist daily Hoy. Wrote one Cuban to a friend in Miami: "We substitute mangoes for squash, eat fried mangoes, mango...
...nature's familiar, never-ending cycle, water falls to earth as precipitation, seeps underground, flows into lakes and streams, and rushes toward the oceans. Sooner or later, it evaporates back into the air or is given up by plants in the process of transpiration. An acre of corn gives off to the air about 4,000 gallons of water each day. In time, the water returns to the earth again in the form of rain and snow...