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 1218 RUMANIA.

In 1919 and 1920 the chief agricultural crops were as follows :-

Crop

Area cultivated

Production

3919

1920

1919

Wheat. ..

Hre .... Barley. . Oats Maize

Acres 2,949, 983 218,221 584,357 594,322 4,837,625

Acres 2,095,890

1S3,<!75 1,053,736

971,102 4,051,494

Tons 1,320,000 87,000

■257,000

207,000

2,597,000

Tons 630,000 52,000 460,000 425,000 1,773,000

The tobacco area in Transylvania in 1920 was 11,250 acres (7,500 acres in 1919) and the yield 5,000 tons.

The forests of Rumania have, an aggregate area of 18,750,000 acres, of which 6,820,000 acres are in the Old Kingdom, 5,500,000 acres in Trans- sylvania, 1,700,000 acres in Maraniuresh, and 1,500,000 acres in the Bariat.

On February 15, 1917, Rumania had 299,402 horses, 1,049,702 cattle, 1,655,110 sheep, 84,197 goats, and 371,205 swine.

The principal minerals are salt, lignite, iron and copper ores, and petroleum. Petroleum springs, both government and private, are worked at Prahova, Dambovitza, Bacau, and Buzau. The total output reached in 1900, 250,000 metric tons; in 1913, 1,885,619; in 1914, 1,783,957; in 1915, 1,673,145; in 1916, 1,244,093; in 1917, 517,491; in 1918, 1,214,219 ; in 1919, 919,847. The salt mines are situated in the region of tha lower Carpathians, from Bukovina to the west of Oltenic, a stretch of over 250 square miles. Salt mining has been a state monopoly since 1863.

Industries of some importance are flour milling, brewing, and distilling. Sugar production in 1913-14 amounted to 32,928,560 kilogs. In 1915 there were 1,149 industrial establishments, with a capital of 805,472,618 lei, and employing 58,871 workmen.

Commerce.

The values of the imports into and exports from Rumania, exclusive of gold and silver (in sterling) were : —

Years

Imports

Exports

Years

Imports

Export*

1911

1912 1913

£

22,789,801 25,510,220 23,600,504

£ ^,816 1,148 '8,212

1914

191.',

1019

£ 19,909,922 18,183,888

1 in, :fl 7,825

£ 17,896,666 22,581,469 4,115,647

A Treaty of Commerce and Navigation providing for the most favoured nation treat- ment between Romania and Great Britain was signed at Bucharest on October 31, 1905.

Imports and export* are estimated in accordance with values settled by a Commission appointed liorn lime to time.