Word: cropland
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Much of the talk was inevitably about money. This year Egypt must pay Moscow the first of twelve annual payments on the estimated $271 million Moscow is putting into the Aswan Dam and ancillary installations. Though eventually the project will pay for itself in new cropland and electric power, these benefits will not be fully realized for nearly a decade, during which Nasser needs even larger sums for industrial development, and already Egypt owes the Soviet bloc $800 million plus a large, secret bill for arms. Khrushchev hinted broadly that there would be further massive credits-even though some Russians...
...million for irrigation and flood-control development to bring 3,000,000 more acres of cropland into production by 1980, making the country self-sufficicnt in farm production. Last year Venezuela spent almost $60 million on food imports...
...yielded 28.7 bu., more than twice last year's, and nearly double the ten-year average. Iowa corn came in at 76 bu. per acre, well above the ten-year average of 57.2. Thanks to modern farm technology, the total harvest was wrought from 288 million acres of cropland-10 million fewer than last year. By 1980, when the U.S. will have 250 million mouths to feed, the farmer will be able to produce all the food and fiber necessary for domestic and export use on only 238 million acres...
...coca." Chicha is a crude corn whisky; coca is a mild narcotic leaf that deadens pain and kills hunger. Luna lets his peasants graze a limited number of livestock free (most hacendados charge one head for ten as a grazing fee). He also allots each family two acres of cropland on which to grow food-potatoes and corn, and in season turnips and cabbage...
...Peking's People's Dally dolefully informed readers that in 1960 half of China's cropland had been visited by drought, floods, hordes of insects or other natural disaster. While Russia, with bumper crops in the Ukraine and northern Caucasus to compensate for Kazakhstan's losses, may yet do a little better than 1959's thoroughly mediocre harvest, the Chinese Communists seemed to be preparing their hungry people for the worst harvest since they took over in 1949. Already cut to a daily ration of 1,750 calories, Chinese commune workers were being admonished...