Word: wheats
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...primary focus. The annual inflation rate is in excess of 20%, the balance of payments deficit is $3.2 billion, and government expenditures last year outstripped revenues by almost $2 billion. Among Soares' first moves were measures to lower or eliminate government subsidies for such essential items as sugar, wheat and milk, and to negotiate $685 million in loans from the International Monetary Fund. He raised taxes and cut the amount available in this year's budget for spending in state-controlled industries and public works. Not least he opened up the state-controlled banking, insurance, cement and beer...
...make a decision," he says. "We are tired of waiting on the doorstep." Soares warns that if Portugal is not let in soon, it "will find other alternatives." The country is already dependent on the U.S. for a large portion of its foodstuffs, including 90% of its wheat. President António Ramalho Eanes was in Washington last week for talks with President Reagan and other Administration officials on topics like the renewal of the lease for use by the U.S. of the Portuguese air base in the Azores...
Sichuan used to feed itself. But then, from the czars of the Cultural Revolution, came the order that two rice crops be grown a year. Rice, however, is a tricky crop. Sichuan had evolved its own two-crop culture ? rice in summer and wheat or rapeseed in winter. But Peking had ordered two rice crops a year. So Sichuan tried to meet its quotas. When the climate made that impossible, the government had to send grain into this onetime surplus province, and the peasants hungered...
...deceive. This has been a great year in China: a prospective record harvest, record incomes. Yet peasant prosperity is fragile. Here was Sichuan in green spring, the wheat turning yellow, soon to be golden. But if the rains fell at the wrong time, the wheat would be beaten to the ground and lost, and there would be a slim rice crop in the fall. This huge province lives on the margin of hunger...
...their crops to the drought. In west Texas, where it is always arid, farmers and ranchers are enduring the second year of drought; rainfall during the past year (4.83 in.) has been the skimpiest since 1892. There in Schleicher County, farmers during a decent season coaxed 26 bu. of wheat or one bale of cotton from each cultivated acre. This year, despite getting a bit more rain than the rest of the region, they expect their fields to yield only 6 bu. of wheat per acre, or a scant tenth of a bale of cotton...