Excerpt from Foreign Agriculture, Vol. 1: A Review of Foreign Farm Policy, Production, and Trade; April 1937 Manchuria is one of the younger agricultural regions, which bids fair to play an increasingly important role in the world's agricultural economy. Despite the occasional claim that Manchuria won the title of the granary of Asia centuries ago, this territory was a primitive, sparsely-settled agricultural and cattle grazing country until about the last decade of the nineteenth century. In the course of the last 40 years, however, and particularly during the third decade of this century, the agricultural development of Manchuria made such rapid strides that between 1919 and 1930 its cultivated area was doubled. 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.