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Excerpt from The Far East, Mainland China, Oceania Agricultural Situation: Review of 1965 and Outlook for 1966 Total agricultural production in the Far East in 1965 was practically unchanged from the 1964 level (table Consequently, there was an actual decline in per capita production as the population growth rate in the region in recent years has averaged around percent. Food deficits have increased in a number of countries due to shortfalls in production in some instances and to increased income accompanied by higher per capita consumption in others. Widespread drought reduced India's harvests in the latter half of 1965 and has resulted in prospects for reduced harvests in the spring of 1966 for most winter-grown crops. The food situation there is quite tight, and the outlook is for a continued relatively short food supply throughout 1966 even with a prospective record level of foodgrain imports. Since 1957-59, agricultural production in the region has increased at a compound annual rate of percent. Per capita output has remained practically unchanged since 1960 fol lowing a period of gain during the 19505. The most significant gain in agricultural production has occurred in Thailand, with production in 1965 some 57 percent above the 1957-59 average. Production in Vietnam is down about 10 percent from the level of 2 years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.