COMMERCE
267
million acres has been converted from basin to perennial irrigation in the last ten years. The area and production of cotton in six years were : —
Season
Are*. Crop. season Feddans Qanttrs season
Area. Feddans
1,677.000 1,361,000 1,574,000
Crop. Qanttrs
1913-14 1915-16 1916-17
1,723,000 7.664,000 1917-18 1,186,000 4,775,000 1918-19 1,656,000 5,060,000 1919-20
6,293,000 4,821,000
5.072,000
The area under cotton in 1920 was 1,828,000 feddans
In 1919 the area and yield of wheat were 1,323,376 acres and 820,195 tons; barley, 356,530 acres and 219,620 tons; maize, 1,792,109 acres; millet, 26(5,556 acres ; rice, 149,630 acres ; sugar-cane, 59,311 acres.
In 1919 the sugar exported amounted to 12,689 tons, valued at £E654,656 and the cotton exported amounted to 6,708,906 qantars, valued at £E65,441,901 (1 qantlr = 9905 lbs).
The principal mineral products in 1918 were (in metric tons) : Phosphate rock, 31,000 ; petroleum, 282,000 ; manganese iron ore, 27,000 ; nitrate shale, 4,500; carbonates and sulphate of soda, 3,500. The production of gold was 2,856 oz. Other products are : Ochres, sulphate of alumina, sulphate of magnesia, talc, building stones, clay, gypsum, natron, nitrate of soda, salt, and turquoise. The following minerals are also known to exist, namely, alum, copper ore, beryl, granite, ornamental stones, and sulphur.
Commerce.
Imports and exports for five years : —
Tear
Merchandise '
Specie
Imports
Export*
Imports
Exports
£E
£E
£E
1913
27,865,195
31,662,065
9,791,188
11,13"
1917
33,175,139
41,060,612
1,239,549
44,300
1918
51,155.306
45.370,020
611,009
5,500
1919
47,409.717
75,S88,321
183,513
8,174
1920
101, $80,963
£5,467,061
399,039
12.249
Excluding re-exports (£12,551,894 in 1920) and transit trade (£E12.811,874 in 1920). Commerce (merchandise) by principal countries : —
Countries of origin
Imports from
Exports to
or destination
1919
1920 £E
1919
1920
£E
£E
£E
Great Britain
21,480.957
S7.>94,760
40,222,S!1
30,343,2S4
747,707
Australasia .
1 .S4S.623
4,900,722
48,910
91,137
United States
2.883,749
10,751,055
16,714,085
26,469,171
China .
1.3::
2,320,707
25,881
19,907
Japan .
29,164
4.051
1,804
1,236,763
France
2.390,540
o,104,S05
5,871,556
8,069.200
Greece
1.S93.105
0.031
696.591
413,036
Italy .
2 - 12,028
5,705,020
3,499.514
3,303,414
Switzerland
•i 05,307
1,549,640
1,811,096
2,246,838
Belgium
202,710
1,927,160
207,019
324,260
Chile .
jS,055
2,057,266
0,49-1
6,559
Germany . Sweden
6,827
443.11S
1,186,121
543,561
1,2*4,373
1,639.665
56.779
19.721
