Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect is to discourage production and exports. And without foreign exchange, one-crop nations are unable to industrialize and diversify. Latin America's export problem is illustrated in one set of statistics. While between 1947 and 1960 the Middle East increased the value of its exports by 70%, Asia by 109%, Western Europe by 184%, the total of Latin American exports grew only...
Radio Hanoi has been wooing the Meos for years with Meo-language broadcasts, but the tribe reportedly split into pro-and anti-Communist factions after a quarrel over the division of the opium crop. Colonel Vang and his cousin, Health Minister Touby Lyfoung, lead the loyalist Meos. The Pathet Lao Meos follow Chief Phay Dang, described by Communist Journalist Wilfred Burchett, who once visited him, as "a noble figure with a fine head, the dignity and poise of a great Indian chief...
...With soil so rich that almost any crop will grow, Brazil is potentially one of the world's greatest agricultural nations. It exports cognac, champagne and wine to Argentina, the U.S. and Europe-including 30 million liters last year to France. It is the world's No. 1 producer and exporter of coffee, ranks seventh in soybeans and rice; sixth in tomatoes, sweet potatoes and peanuts; fifth in jute; fourth in tobacco and cotton; second in sisal, cane sugar, cacao, corn, oranges. Yet its agricultural technology is primitive and its export potentiality (it grows more bananas and pineapple...
...Saxony, 17 top engineers departed en masse with all the blueprints. East German universities have lost 912 professors and instructors; 16,500 primary and secondary school teachers have abandoned their blackboards. In six years, 5,107 doctors, dentists and veterinarians left the country. Among last week's crop of refugees were an airport director, the technical director of the big nationalized steel plant at Thale, and the chief doctor of Leipzig University's surgical clinic (his predecessor fled to the West seven months...
Although agricultural experts are still not certain just how the two chemicals do the delicate job of differentiating between wheat and weed, they are confidently predicting remarkable results. Some scientists expect the Canadian wheat crop alone to show an increase of 75 million bu. a year. And though both companies may sell more Avadex and Carbyne than any other herbicide ever made, some of their scientists suspect that they have opened the lid on a Pandora's box. Said one of them last week: "With a surplus of North American wheat right now, what are we going...