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million acres has been converted from basin to perennial irrigation in the last ten years. The area and production of cotton in six years were : —

Season

Are*. Crop. season Feddans Qanttrs season

Area. Feddans

1,677.000 1,361,000 1,574,000

Crop. Qanttrs

1913-14 1915-16 1916-17

1,723,000 7.664,000 1917-18 1,186,000 4,775,000 1918-19 1,656,000 5,060,000 1919-20

6,293,000 4,821,000

5.072,000

The area under cotton in 1920 was 1,828,000 feddans

In 1919 the area and yield of wheat were 1,323,376 acres and 820,195 tons; barley, 356,530 acres and 219,620 tons; maize, 1,792,109 acres; millet, 26(5,556 acres ; rice, 149,630 acres ; sugar-cane, 59,311 acres.

In 1919 the sugar exported amounted to 12,689 tons, valued at £E654,656 and the cotton exported amounted to 6,708,906 qantars, valued at £E65,441,901 (1 qantlr = 9905 lbs).

The principal mineral products in 1918 were (in metric tons) : Phosphate rock, 31,000 ; petroleum, 282,000 ; manganese iron ore, 27,000 ; nitrate shale, 4,500; carbonates and sulphate of soda, 3,500. The production of gold was 2,856 oz. Other products are : Ochres, sulphate of alumina, sulphate of magnesia, talc, building stones, clay, gypsum, natron, nitrate of soda, salt, and turquoise. The following minerals are also known to exist, namely, alum, copper ore, beryl, granite, ornamental stones, and sulphur.

Commerce.

Imports and exports for five years : —

Tear

Merchandise '

Specie

Imports

Export*

Imports

Exports

£E

£E

£E

1913

27,865,195

31,662,065

9,791,188

11,13"

1917

33,175,139

41,060,612

1,239,549

44,300

1918

51,155.306

45.370,020

611,009

5,500

1919

47,409.717

75,S88,321

183,513

8,174

1920

101, $80,963

£5,467,061

399,039

12.249

Excluding re-exports (£12,551,894 in 1920) and transit trade (£E12.811,874 in 1920). Commerce (merchandise) by principal countries : —

Countries of origin

Imports from

Exports to

or destination

1919

1920 £E

1919

1920

£E

£E

£E

Great Britain

21,480.957

S7.>94,760

40,222,S!1

30,343,2S4

747,707

Australasia.

1 .S4S.623

4,900,722

48,910

91,137

United States

2.883,749

10,751,055

16,714,085

26,469,171

China.

1.3::

2,320,707

25,881

19,907

Japan.

29,164

4.051

1,804

1,236,763

France

2.390,540

o,104,S05

5,871,556

8,069.200

Greece

1.S93.105

0.031

696.591

413,036

Italy.

2 - 12,028

5,705,020

3,499.514

3,303,414

Switzerland

•i 05,307

1,549,640

1,811,096

2,246,838

Belgium

202,710

1,927,160

207,019

324,260

Chile.

jS,055

2,057,266

0,49-1

6,559

Germany. Sweden

6,827

443.11S

1,186,121

543,561

1,2*4,373

1,639.665

56.779

19.721