Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prodded by drought that has dashed hopes for a bumper Soviet wheat crop, Russian buyers last week returned, as expected, to the U.S. market. They signed contracts to buy 117 million bu., or 3.2 million metric tons, of winter wheat from Cook Industries of Memphis and Cargill Inc. of Minneapolis; at present prices, the deal amounts to about $470 million. That is hardly enough to push American prices up very much, but a big question remains: How much more does the U.S.S.R. plan...
...Portuguese depart, both manufacturing and agriculture have sagged. Crop levels this year for tea, tobacco, cotton and cashew nuts have dropped sharply. At the port cities of Nacala, Beira and Lourenço Marques, efficiency is down 80% and pilferage has doubled in the past year. "What worries me," said a black civil servant, "is that Machel doesn't, seem to care if the standard of living falls here. In fact I think it fits in with his Maoist ideas. Maybe the camaradas [comrades] will take it in the countryside, but sooner or later he will have an urban...
...only cactus and mesquite seem to flourish. There were heavy rains in November when, as Baptist Missionary Vance Brown puts it, "the people went crazy planting like they've never planted before. And then we didn't get another sniff of rain for seven months." The winter crop was lost and the spring crop, which normally would be planted in April, was never put in at all. To make matters still worse, a mysterious disease called "yellowing" has killed coconut palms that were a source of nourishment during previous droughts...
...relief effort has been fairly well coordinated, in part because various U.S. agencies were already at work in Haiti when the food emergency was declared. The distribution program, which is being administered by CARE, is intended to feed 120,000 people until the end of the summer, when a crop, planted in early June when spotty rains began to fall, can be harvested. Several dozen people have already died of starvation and the total may well grow...
...industry is growing, so is agriculture; since 1965 there has been an impressive 3% yearly increase in crop output. Mechanization has not yet made much headway, and work in the fields is as backbreaking as it has been for centuries. "For years the West has had an urban preoccupation," says a senior South Korean official, sounding vaguely Maoist. "Yet in modern Asian history it has been the peasantry which has been the moving force. We have tilted the allocation of resources toward the countryside...