Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Introduction

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Cotton be confined to regions where there is plenty of cheap, unskilled labor, the kind of labor that is supplied by the negroes of the southern states or the felaheen of Egypt. There must also be easy means of transportation to take the fiber to the factories where it is made into cloth; otherwise the marketing of the product may cost so much that it does not pay the farmers to grow it. Hence we see that profitable cotton growing is limited by conditions of temperature, rainfall, sunshine, soil, labor, and transportation. Almost every other crop has similar limitations. Where cotton is grown in other countries. Now that we know the conditions required for the growing of cotton, let us examine the world outside the United States to see where else it is grown, and why it is grown there. India. Figure 7 shows that next to the United States, which raises from a half to two thirds of the world’s supply of cotton, stands India. In India, cotton is grown principally in the western part of the south- ern plateau. There the temperature, rainfall, and sunshine are favorable and the so-called “ black-cotton soil,” formed by the decay of dark volcanic rock, is exceptionally good. There, too, labor is cheap; and as the British have built many railway lines, the crop is readily transported to market. China. As a producer of cotton China probably comes next to India. The Hoang Ho valley is the region of greatest production. While southeastern China has favorable climatic conditions resembling those of our southern states, it has not so much level land covered with fertile soil, and it lacks adequate means of transportation. To offset these disadvantages, China has an almost unlimited supply of cheap labor. WORLD COTTOM PRODUCTION REPRERENT™ WORLD ROL. 1 28 IOI OO RAL © f16. ¢. More than half the cotton crop of the world is grown in the United States. Egypt and India make up a little more than a quarter of the crop, and the remaining quarter is accounted fos mainly by Russia. Brazil. China. Persia. Peru, Mexico. and the Caribhean region.

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