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¹⁹ It is very difficult to ascertain the effect of fertilizer application on yield because of lack of information on where and how fertilizers were used and how the marginal productivity curve looked. According to Communist estimates, one catty of nitrogen fertilizer can increase foodgrain output by three catties and one catty of phosphate fertilizer can increase foodgrain output by 1.5 catties. The minimum effective requirement of chemical fertilizers, in addition to organic fertilizer, for various crops is estimated at about 25 catties per mou. Liu, and Yeh, , p. 423Google Scholar. For a comparison, see Liu, Jung-chao, “Fertilizer Supply and Grain Production in Communist China,” Journal of Farm Economics, Vol. 47, no. 4, november, 1965CrossRefGoogle Scholar. It may be noted that in terms of domestic production, the ratio between nitrogenous and phosphorous fertilizers was 6 to 1 in 1957 and 3.3 to 1 in 1958. Ibid.

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Computed from data given in Communist China: Ministry of Agriculture, Bureau of Planning, Chungkuo yu shih-chieh chu-yao kuo-chia nung-yeh sheng-ch'an t'ung-chi tzu-liao hui-p'ien (Peking, 1958), p. 77.Google Scholar

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