Here again we find Argentina leading. Moreover, she exported nearly the
whole of her production, whilst North America, Russia, and India
exported less than half a million tons between them.
It is more than probable that by 1920 Argentina will be able to export,
as the result of agricultural work, more than L100,000,000 worth of
produce per annum. It is interesting to note that, as the present
figures reveal, allowing for a population of 6,500,000 and an
agricultural produce export of L48,335,432, each individual in Argentina
has sent abroad, after producing enough from the land to keep himself,
goods to the value of nearly L8.
The diagram facing this page shows what has been accomplished by
Argentina in the last ten years.
[Illustration: DIAGRAM OF VALUE IN L STERLING OF THE TOTAL EXPORTS OF
ARGENTINA 1900-1909.]
In actual money value the exportation of wheat, linseed, oats, maize,
other grain, flour, bran, and middlings is, in round figures, as
follows:--
1900 L15,485,000
1901 14,319,000
1902 13,634,000
1903 21,050,000
1904 30,065,000
1905 34,047,000
1906 31,530,000
1907 32,818,000
1908 48,335,000
1909 46,100,000
CATTLE.
The value derived from the cattle industry and its allied produce is of
great importance to the Argentine Republic.
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