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Excerpt from Foreign Crops and Markets, Vol. 63: October 22, 1951 Current reports from Mexico indicate that an increase of about 100 per cent ln cotton acreage in the State of Sonora on the west coast where new pump irrigation developments provided adequate water has nearly offset heavy losses in the Matamoros and other northeastern districts where severe drought and shortage of irrigation water existed throughout the entire growing period. This year's record estimate of bales is about above the 1950-51 crop of bales but about less than was expected earlier from the larger acreage. The 1951-52 crop now being harvested in North Brazil is estimated at less than 300, 000 bales compared with 1480, 000 a year ago, The decrease is at tributed to heavy damage by locust plagues and to a lesser extent to drought. There is little evidence of any significant increase in South Brazil where the 1951-52 crop is planted during September and October, so the over-all estimate for Brazil is calculated at bales compared with 1_ a year ago The principal limiting factors for cotton expansion in South Brazil are scarcity of farm labor, the difficulty of competing with high profit coffee crops, scarcity of fertilizers, and lack of access to new large areas of virgin farm land which made possible the rapid expansion of cotton growing in the 1930's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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