PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY
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Production and Industry.
I. — Agricfltitue and Forestry.
The cultivation of the soil is the chief industry of Hungary, since (if we include the forests) it furnishes employment to 68 '4 per cent, of the population. According to the census of 1900, 12,977,419 persons are sup- ported hy agriculture properly so-called ; 11,864 persons by dairy work, sheep breeding, and poultry; 43,954 persons by market gardening and horticulture ; 132,399 by forestry, the chase, and charcoal-burning, and 9,447 by other agricultural occupations.
The total area of all the holdings in 1911 was 32,496,701 hectares (81,241,752 acres), and the different branches of culture were distributed as follows : —
Branch of culture (1911)
Hectares
Arable land
Gardens
Meadows
Pastures
Vineyards
Woodlands
Reed-bank
Infertile area
Percentage of area
13,971,943
42-99
430,327
1-32
3,170,020
9-76
3,953,430
12-17
316,091
0-97
8,885,072
27-34
64,400
0-20
1,705,448
5-25
Totals
32,496,701
100-00
The following tables show the area in thousands of Jiectares (2-47 acres) of the leading crops, the total produce in thousands of meter- centners (1-96, or nearly 2 cwls. ), and also the produce per hectare in meter-centners.
1911
1
1912
—
Area in
1,000 hectares
Produce in 1,000 metric- centners
Produce per hectare in metric- centners
1
! Area in 1,000 hectares
Produce in 1,000 metric- centners
Produce per hectare in metric- centners
Wheat . . . 3,708
51,731
13-95
3,877
50,251
13-0
Barley
1,171
16,599
14-17
1,116
15,702
14-1
Oats .
1,174
13,820
11-78
1,097
11,623
10-6
Rve .
1,100
12.783
11-56
1,240
14,395
11-60
Pulse .
S401
2,8111
7-90'2
—
—
—
Buckwheat
181
791
0-232
—
—
Maize .
2,870
41,005 1
14-24
2,868
5-2,324
18-2
Other Cereals
501
2991
6-062
—
—
—
Mixed corn
87
1,005 '
11-02
—
—
Potatoes .
Gits
50,471 1
72-34
—
—
—
Sugar beetroot
143
29,876 '
208-98
175
48,366
275-0
Fodder beetroot
•223-
55,7003
248-154
—
—
—
Vineyards .
3-)8
4,9395
13 -SO"
—
—
i-
Tobacco
oO
633
12-72
—
—
—
Hemp (grains)
62 '
214
3-45
—
—
—
Flax (grains)
16
48 1
3-09
_
—
— ■
Rape .
31
281 [
• 9-03
—
—
— '
1 Chief and secondary crops altogether, with corresponding area.
2 Chief crops only. 3 Produce in arable land and gardens altogether. 4 Produce in arable land only. 5 I^OOO Hectolitres. 6 Hectolitres.
