International Trade In Bread And Coarse Grains

Author : United States Department Of Agriculture
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781391347981
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book International Trade in Bread and Coarse Grains written by United States Department Of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from International Trade in Bread and Coarse Grains: World Exports by Countries of Origin and Destination The world's annual export movement of bread and coarse grains from surplus to deficit producing countries has been an outstanding feature of international trade down through the centuries. The grains under reference are wheat, rye, corn, oats, barley and grain sorghums. Production for export has now reached such proportions that competition for export outlets is keener today than at any time in history. This bulletin reveals the actual levels of such competition during each of the five years ending with 1955-56 compared with the quantities moved into export channels in earlier years, running back to 1909-13. A large part of the human race depends on bread and coarse grains for the bulk of its food intake, consuming them either directly in the form of porridge, bread and other baked products and beverages, or indirectly in the form of livestock and meat products. While no one grain is used exclusively for one single purpose, wheat and rye are used mainly for human food and corn, oats, barley and grain sorghums mainly for feeding livestock. Approximately billion out of the billion acres of arable land in the world are devoted to the pro duction of bread and coarse grains. Production and marketing of these grains constitutes an important part of the agricultural economy of every country in the world. Every month of the year, in some farming area or another, a golden harvest of these grains is moving to market. Millions of farmers throughout the world depend upon them as the main source of their income. Yet there is no one country where production and consumption are so nicely balanced that the country con cerned does not either have to import or to export some of these grains. In fact, no single group of commodities plays a more important role in international political and economic relations generally. The share of the world's annual production moving into export channels ranges between 15 and 17 percent for wheat, around 10 percent for barley, and 3 percent for corn. For rye, oats and grain sorghums, the export share is less than 3 percent, these being largely stay-at-home crops. 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.