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Prague. Average arrivals of vegetables during the periods 1925-1929 and 1930-1934
were 62,660 and 76,664 tons respectively. The information supplied does not indicate
what vegetables are included or whether dried vegetables are also included. On the basis
of these figures and the average population, per capita consumption seems to have increased
from 181 to 198 lb.
Rome. The average quantities of vegetables entering the town were 65,063 tons in the
years 1926 to 1929 and 81,433 tons in the years 1930 to 1934. Average population in these
two periods was 848,547 and 1,032,682. The average annual consumption per head thus appears
to have been 172 lb. in 1926-29 and 176 lb. in 1930-34.
Vienna. Vegetables placed on the wholesale market were 119,970 tons, on an average,
in the years 1925-1929 and 131,250 in 1930-34. Consumption per head, on the basis of
the average population, was 143 lb. and 159 lb. respectively.
Zagreb. The average supplies of cauliflower and other vegetables (excluding potatoes)
in 1929-1931 and 1932-34 were 3V11 and 4>4^5 tons respectively. These figures do not
include those of the quantities brought to the town by farmers and peasants from neigh¬
bouring villages. Average per head consumption during the two periods, on the basis of
these partial figures, was 46 and 49 lb. respectively.
Fruit.
Budapest. The quantities of fresh fruits entering by rail or river averaged 34,125 tons
in the period 1926-29 and 32,403 in the years 1930-34. These do not include fruit arriving
by other means which, for certain kinds, is considerable in amount. On the basis of the figures
given consumption per head was 73 and 68 lb. respectively.
Paris. The quantities of fruit arriving in the Halles Centrales, i. 6. only those handled by
appointed consignees and excluding those sold on the open market, were, on the average,
34,021 tons during the years 1925 to 1929 and 50,183 in the years 1930 to 1934. Per capita
consumption was respectively about 26 and 4° lb. These are, of course, incomplete figures but
they are useful because they seem to suggest an appreciable increase in consumption.
Prague. Average arrivals of fresh fruit were 29,911 tons in the years 1925-29 and
43>3I5 in I93°~34- Average consumption has thus increased from 86 to 112 lb.
Rome. Average annual arrivals of fruit in the years 1926 to 1929 were 37,673 tons
while the average population was 848,547. Corresponding figures for 1930-34 were 66,633 tons
and 1,032,682 inhabitants. Average per head consumption has thus increased from about
100 lb. in the first period to 146 lb. in 1930-34.
Vienna. The average quantity of fresh fruit placed on the wholesale market during the
two periods 1925-29 and 1930-34 was 66,630 and 73,320 tons respectively. This is equivalent
to an average consumption of 79 lb. and 88 lb. respectively.
Zagreb. The average supplies of fresh grapes, fresh figs and other fresh fruits entering the
town, excluding the less considerable amounts brought in by farmers and peasants from neigh¬
bouring villages, were 2,610 tons during the years 1929-31 and 3,250 in 1932-34. These figures
are equivalent to 33 and 35 lb. per head respectively.
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