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For some time to come the poorer countries of the world will have to rely on agriculture to raise their living standards and supply the capital they need to create industries. Agricultural production must therefore be increased. This requires tractors, fertilizers, new and better seeds, vast irrigation schemes, land reforms.
Wheat in a North Dakota field ready to be harvested. Of the total wheat production in the United States of 1,793,322,000 bushels North Dakota accounted for 205,062,000 bushels.

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Headline World Trade in Commodities: Search for Stability

Caption Description Many poor countries earn practically all their income from the trade of such commodities as cocoa, coffee, sugar, tea, cotton, jute, hard fibers, rubber, copper, and tin. They are consequently very vulnerable to trade fluctuations. The United Nations believes that international buffer stocks or reserve supplies of those ten commodities would help stabilize their prices. Negotiations are under way to establish a Common Fund from which to finance such reserves.

A worker spreading newly-harvested coffee beans in Karnataka State. Coffee is a principal food product in India. The UN Conference on Trade and Development is trying to establish international buffer stocks of coffee as a method of controlling world market price extremes for this commodity.

Unique Identifier UN7542155

NICA ID 314073

Production Date 01/01/1978 10:06:14 PM

Country India

Credit UN Photo/John Isaac

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