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

Where Fruit is Produced Figs. 58, 59. Coconuts and bananas are the most valuable of the tropical fruits, and both are grown throughout the tropics, except in regions of slight rainfall. Although coconuts are much used for food in tropical countries, their value to the rest of the world comes from the dried meat (called copra) and the oil pressed from it. Coconut products form one of the leading exports of the Philippine Islands. Bananas are an export crop chiefly in Central America and the West Indies. mala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama. From this region we import about 60,000,000 bunches of bananas annually, or about half a bunch for each person in the United States. Ask the fruit dealer how many bananas an ordinary bunch contains; then decide whether you eat your share. Western Europe draws its banana supply largely from the small islands off the northwestern coast of Africa, such as Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the Cape Verde Islands. Recently it has drawn some from the West Indies. Europeans do not eat nearly so many bananas and oranges as we do. On the other hand, they consume far more grapes, partly fresh and partly in the form of wine. Transportation costs. It might be thought that because bananas are raised so easily they ought to be much cheaper than they are on our market. But when we consider the railroad system that must be built and maintained to collect the fruit from the great plantations and carry it to tropical ports, the fleet of ships to bring

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