Word: famies
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Probably the strongest single force in the Formosan economy is the U.S.-Chinese Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, which has worked on some 3,000 economic projects and carried out a much-needed distribution of farm land that has benefited half a million Formosan fami lies. The commission created a whole new export industry by teaching farmers in 1959 to raise mushrooms; this year Formosa will export 1,000,000 cases of mushrooms worth $10 million. Formosa has become the world's largest pineapple exporter ($12 million worth last year), thanks largely to the fact that the commission taught...
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