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Modern Business Geography 
(V) THE PriMARY PRODUCTION OF ASIA AND AUSTRALIA 
Worip’'s CHIEF PRIMARY 
PRODUCTS (IN APPROXIMATE 
ORDER OF TOTAL VALUE) 
Dairy products . . . . 
Rice . . . . . . . . 
Cattle (excluding hides) . 
Coal . . . . . 
Hay . . . . . 
Wood . . 
Poultry and eggs . 
Wheat . . . 
Potatoes . . 
Vegetables . 
Swine . . 
Millet . 
Grapes . 
Corn . . 
Sugar . . 
Cotton . . 
Petroleum . 
[ron . . . . . . . 
Horses, asses, and mules 
Sheep and goats . . . . 
Beans . . . . 
Qats . . . . . . . . 
Orchard fruits (not apples) 
Fish . . . . . . . . 
Rye . . . . . . . . 
Sweet potatoes and yams 
Olives . . . 
Wool . 
Apples . 
Barley . 
Tobacco . 
’ 
Hides . . . 
Peas, gram, etc. 
’ERCENT-| PERCENTAGE 
AGE Pro-| Probucep mn 
DUCED IN|AUSTRALIA AND 
Asia INEw ZEALAND 
4) | 
98 
25 
4 
(2) 
10) 
(3.0) 
0.0 
2.0 
1.2 
(0.5) 
(0.5) 
(5) 
20 
2 
40) 
(5) 
(75) 
(1.0) 
2.6 
0.4 
(1.0) 
0.6 
0.0 
(5) 
3 
5 
5 
9 
(0.4) 
0.3 
1.2 
0.0 
0.0 
1 
20 
25 
20) 
0.0 
2.6 
14.0 
0.2 
0.7 
(0.6) 
0.6 
0.0 
0.0 
6) 
25) 
2 
=) 
(5) 
20) 
(2) 
(5 
es 
0.0 
(15.0) 
(0.4) 
0.3 
0.0 
20) 
pH 
(5.0) 
0 20 
PARTS OF ASIA IN WHICH 
CHIEFLY PRODUCED 
See Fig. 68 (Siberia) 
See Fig. 35 
See Fig. 68 
Japan, India, China 
Western Siberia 
Northern Asia, S. E. 
Asia 
Widely distributed 
See Fig. 38 
Siberia, Japan 
China, Japan 
See Fig. 72 
S. E. Asia, wherever rice 
is not raised 
Turkey, Persia, etc. 
See Fig. 39 
See Fig. 54 
See Fig. 7 
Transcaucasia, East 
Indies, India 
Japan 
Siberia, Turkestan 
See Fig. 71 - 
China, Japan, India 
See Fig. 40 
Western Asia 
Japan, China 
Siberia 
East Indies, Indo-China. 
India, China 
Syria 
See Fig. 71 
Western Asia 
India, Japan, W. Asia 
India, China, Turkey, 
Philippines, Dutch E. 
Indies 
See Figs. 68, 71, 72 
China. Japan 
1 Figures for Australia include New Zealand. Parentheses indicate that exact statistics 
are not available. and the figure given is an estimate.