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:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

30) Modern Business Geography RICE Rice feeds more people than any other cereal. In many parts of India, China, and Japan, the daily allowance of rice is as much a neces- sity as the loaf of bread is among the Western peoples. It is most interesting to see the different ways in which rice is eaten in the Eastern countries. The native of India sits on his heels with a banana leaf spread on the ground before him, bearing a little pile of boiled rice. With his right hand he makes a small rice ball and skillfully tosses it into his mouth. Every fio 32 A head of meal is of rice if he can afford it; otherwise his main rice has many short [00d is millet. Hot spices often add zest to the taste So. bearing of the rice ball. The native of China or Japan pokes close to the main the rice into his mouth by means of chopsticks. He stalk. holds the rice bowl near his mouth, and with the chop- sticks shoves in the contents as fast as he can. In some countries, as in Turkey and Persia, rice is cooked so that each grain is separate. Bits of meat, nuts, vegetables, or raisins are added, a heaping dish is set on a small, low table, and everyone eats from it with his hands. y ~ a a “ACH DO~ t000 ACRE WORLD RICE PRODUCTION ‘ACH DOT REPRESENTS 200,000.000 POUND: ”~ -4 v N Ch > f16. 35. Draw a line from the northern part of Japan to the eastern end of Java; then, going south of Java, to the Indus River in western India; then across Asia to northern Japan. In the triangular area thus marked off rice is the main food of perhaps two thirds of the 800 millions of people. More than 90 per cent of the world’s rice crop is grown in this area. Here are found the conditions required for rice culture: high temperature; heavy rainfall; low-lying, level lands; a large supply of cheap labor. Egypt, Italy, Madagascar, and some districts in the southeastern United States (Fig. 33) are the only parts of the world outside this area where rice is grown on a commercial scale.

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