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Show eeeps 8F PfuuppmES !. VALUED AT $344,000,000 High Prices and Greatly In- if creased Acreage Nearly Dou- I .. bles 'Value in Year.- j , The value of the most Important t products of the Philippine Islands ' ( f .' rice, sugar, hemp, corn, coconuts nnd ' , tobacco for the year 11)20 amounted ' ' to approximately $344,000,000, accord- i J if? dig to the preliminary annual report Vp llv' submitted by the secretary of ngrleul- r 'Jx 4- ture to the governor general, Francis Burton Harrison. M In 1910 the value of these sntne sis 61 products was only $210,000,000. Dr. M Csllcano Apnclble, secretary of agri- culture, In his report says that whlla ," : the Increase In the tutue ot Plilllpplns products In 1020 was due largely to tas high prices, the Increase In acreoir H nnd the quality of the crops assisted In swelling the value. In 1020 the area of land planted to rice amounted to :i,700,000 acres, an In- , crease of 7 per cent over the previous year. This rice wns nil sold In the Philippines for approximately $1-7,-400,000, an Incrensu of 37 per cent oter 1010. , The area plnnted to sugar cane lost . year wa 'l3,W)7 acres, oft ot whlsh t npiiroriiuately 408,000 tons of sugnr were harvested, the value being $70,-028,000. $70,-028,000. Although thwre was a redaction redac-tion of 1 per cent In the 1020 ncreogo from that of 191. there wsa a 3 per cent Increase In production of sugar.- j The production of coconuts Id 1020 amounted to 70,400,104 trees, valued at ' $0l,xio,lX)O, ni compared with 74,650,- j 000 titv In 1010, valued at $3",'t00,00a 1 The tobacco production In 1920 a anioiinteil to 142,:;00.000 pounds- from 252,800 acres, nnd uis Ttilued at $13,- j 300,000, The Increase In total produc- j tlon and In thu nlue of the crop over , 1011) uuiouuteil nppiuYlnuitely to 18 per, j cent. N I |