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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

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Production and Industry.

I. — Agricfltitue and Forestry.

The cultivation of the soil is the chief industry of Hungary, since (if we include the forests) it furnishes employment to 68 '4 per cent, of the population. According to the census of 1900, 12,977,419 persons are sup- ported hy agriculture properly so-called ; 11,864 persons by dairy work, sheep breeding, and poultry; 43,954 persons by market gardening and horticulture ; 132,399 by forestry, the chase, and charcoal-burning, and 9,447 by other agricultural occupations.

The total area of all the holdings in 1911 was 32,496,701 hectares (81,241,752 acres), and the different branches of culture were distributed as follows : —

Branch of culture (1911)

Hectares

Arable land

Gardens

Meadows

Pastures

Vineyards

Woodlands

Reed-bank

Infertile area

Percentage of area

13,971,943

42-99

430,327

1-32

3,170,020

9-76

3,953,430

12-17

316,091

0-97

8,885,072

27-34

64,400

0-20

1,705,448

5-25

Totals

32,496,701

100-00

The following tables show the area in thousands of Jiectares (2-47 acres) of the leading crops, the total produce in thousands of meter- centners (1-96, or nearly 2 cwls. ), and also the produce per hectare in meter-centners.

1911

1

1912

—

Area in

1,000 hectares

Produce in 1,000 metric- centners

Produce per hectare in metric- centners

1

! Area in 1,000 hectares

Produce in 1,000 metric- centners

Produce per hectare in metric- centners

Wheat. . . 3,708

51,731

13-95

3,877

50,251

13-0

Barley

1,171

16,599

14-17

1,116

15,702

14-1

Oats.

1,174

13,820

11-78

1,097

11,623

10-6

Rve.

1,100

12.783

11-56

1,240

14,395

11-60

Pulse.

S401

2,8111

7-90'2

—

—

—

Buckwheat

181

791

0-232

—

—

Maize.

2,870

41,005 1

14-24

2,868

5-2,324

18-2

Other Cereals

501

2991

6-062

—

—

—

Mixed corn

87

1,005 '

11-02

—

—

Potatoes.

Gits

50,471 1

72-34

—

—

—

Sugar beetroot

143

29,876 '

208-98

175

48,366

275-0

Fodder beetroot

•223-

55,7003

248-154

—

—

—

Vineyards.

3-)8

4,9395

13 -SO"

—

—

i-

Tobacco

oO

633

12-72

—

—

—

Hemp (grains)

62 '

214

3-45

—

—

—

Flax (grains)

16

48 1

3-09

_

—

— ■

Rape.

31

281 [

• 9-03

—

—

— '

1 Chief and secondary crops altogether, with corresponding area.

2 Chief crops only. 3 Produce in arable land and gardens altogether. 4 Produce in arable land only. 5 I^OOO Hectolitres. 6 Hectolitres.