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Many of those who harvest the sugar crop in Louisiana live in shacks that were once used by slaves. The walls are so worn that sunlight filters through. With an annual wage of about $2,750, the average sugar-cane worker has five children, and their diet is so poor that by the age of twelve their bodies are like those of people 50 years...
...wages, their lawyers tried for a sort of garnishment in reverse. As a result, Federal Judge John Pratt has just issued a preliminary injunction holding up all subsidy payments until an amended wage is established and paid for "all labor performed on or after Oct. 1, 1971," when the harvest began. Lawyers are hoping that each of 15,000 workers will get from $50 to $75, a bill that could cost the growers more than...
South Viet Nam's real potential for future prosperity rests on its farms. Agriculturally, it is one of Asia's most fertile countries, and despite the ruin of many farm areas, the green revolution brought about by fast-growing "miracle rice" enabled South Vietnamese farmers to harvest a crop last year that was 25% greater than in 1965?although 10% fewer acres were cultivated...
...Still, there is the wheat scandal, and we do call it a scandal down here, which had a very negative effect on President Nixon," White said. "This is an early wheat harvest belt; our farmers lost millions of dollars. Of course, (Secretary of Agriculture Earl L.) Butz said that the farmers gambled and lost, but the feeling of our farmers is that they were the only ones who had to gamble...
...inefficient system of production and distribution. In 1971-72, European Russia was bedeviled by a freak winter, when little snow fell to insulate seeds against record spells of frost. This was followed by a drought during the hottest summer of the century. The resulting crop damage and late harvest taxed the Soviets' inadequate technology to the breaking point. Trucks, harvesting machinery, railroad cars, granaries and manpower all seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time...