Greece . ONOMICDEVELOPMENT THE Greeks have always beenfamous as sailors and losses of their merchant marine dur-ing the war, which amounted to morethan 500,000 tons, sufficiently indicatetheir activity in this domain; but whatis less well known is their incessantstruggle to make their land productiveto the highest possible degree. Greece by its mountainous nature is acountry difficult to cultivate. It has onlyabout 20% of cultivable land. Theclimate, which is warm, dry and variable,is ill adapted to the cultivation of grainsand rather favors that of the vine, theolive, fruit tree
Greece . ONOMICDEVELOPMENT THE Greeks have always beenfamous as sailors and losses of their merchant marine dur-ing the war, which amounted to morethan 500,000 tons, sufficiently indicatetheir activity in this domain; but whatis less well known is their incessantstruggle to make their land productiveto the highest possible degree. Greece by its mountainous nature is acountry difficult to cultivate. It has onlyabout 20% of cultivable land. Theclimate, which is warm, dry and variable,is ill adapted to the cultivation of grainsand rather favors that of the vine, theolive, fruit trees, tobacco and cotton,which are paying products, but are in-tended for exportation rather than forlocal consumption. Small proprietorsare the rule, and in spite of disadvan-tages and the difficulty of finding thenecessary capital for an intensive ex-ploitation of the soil, the country whichthe Turks seemed to have ruined foreverhas developed with a marvelous emigrants have come back from 30. THE CORINTH CANAL, which connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf. It is6,540 meters long. 22 meters wide, and 8 meters deep. America with capital and scientific in-formation on agriculture. Modern ma-chinery and fertilizers have made theirappearance, as well as agricultural co-operative associations which numbered,in 1919, 820 with 52,648 members anda capital of 2,515,000 drachmas. Morethan half of these are cooperative creditassociations to which the National Bankof Greece, by virtue of its charter of1915 is bound to advance money to theamount of twenty-five million success of this movement has beensuch that Mr. Jiassemides, a high officialof the Ministry of Agriculture, who wasfurthermore the soul of the movement,has found enough readers among thesemembers to assure the existence of aspecial review. This progress in agri-culture would not have been possible ifthe State had not at the same timebusied itself with the draining of theswamps, which are al
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