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-3- foreign exchange simply to feed her people and to keep her teztile mills operating on a minimum basis. As a result, very little capital is available, for essential industrial expansion. 8. No country is doing more than India in proportion to its resources to help itself. India's budget is balanced. The rupee is one of the sounder currencies in the world. The Indian Five Year Plan objectives, which are supposed to be met by April 1, 1956, call for the production of sufficient food and cotton to make the Indian people self- supporting and to free their foreign exchange for the development of higher living standards through increased industrial production. Because of the extreme inefficiency of Indian agriculture, these objectives can be readily met only if the necessary resources are available. The program calls for a three point effort. a. Through the development of 144 multi-purpose river valley projects, the digging of thousands of tube wells, shallow wells and the expansion of present irrigation systems, the Indian Government is striving to place 16 million additional acres under irrigation by 1956--an increase of à thirty percent. b. Through malaria control, jungle clearance and the climination of crop-destroying weeds, the Indian Govern- ment expects to bring four million additional acres under cultivation. C. Through agricultural extension work based on Horace Holmes: pilot study at Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, the Indian Government is working to increase the production from land now under cultivation. 9. This five year program aims at a total annual increase

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