Fabrikorganisation, Fabrikbuchführung und Selbstkostenberechnung der Firma Ludw. Loewe & Co. Actiengesellschaft, Berlin

The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

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Identifikator:: 876375174

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-1989

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lilienthal, Johann

Title:: Fabrikorganisation, Fabrikbuchführung und Selbstkostenberechnung der Firma Ludw. Loewe & Co. Actiengesellschaft, Berlin

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Verlag von Julius Springer

Year of publication:: 1907

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 220 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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MANS AGRICULTURAL NEEDS 31 easily be made. As Man lives at present, forests cannot be dispensed with. And in Japan, and several other countries, practically all land available for the growth of food-stuffs has been utilised. It is not simply a question whether more food-stuffs can be grown or not, but whether they can be profitably grown. The results must be sufficient to reward the effort. We have to remember that the areas now cultivated have been selected for their fitness, and those left unculti- vated have been such as do not warrant their use in this way, under the conditions which at present govern human effort. Out of the total arable land, no less than go-79 per cent. is used for cereals and food-crops. An examina- tion of the whole of the data makes it quite evident that any possible variation, by human effort, of the above areas can bring about but relatively small changes. The Japanese Department of Agriculture hopes, of course, still to improve the agriculture of the country, but well-informed Japanese think that, relatively, the total effect will be inconsiderable. Already’ Japan uses, exclusive of chemical manures, large quantities of fertilising agents over the whole of her cultivated areas. For each inhabitant the area devoted to the growth of her cereals and food-crops averages an area equal to a square the sides of which are slightly less than 111 feet. The survey of the whole situation does not offer any ground for believ- ing that the future will be characterised by material changes for the better. Moreover when one considers possible extensions of agricultural area, it is quickly realised that, as already pointed out, there are conditions to be fulfilled. Thus the land must not be quite infertile and must not be too stony or hilly for cultivation; it must either have a sufficient rainfall or must be irrigable; and the supply of water for particular crops, and at the growing

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