'File 27/12 IV Draft Trade Report for Kuwait for the year 1920-21' [‎90r] (179/194)

as ^eompared with 1919-20, chiefly accounted for hy the reduced
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amount of piece goods imported , which valued only £ tyZw -Sy as
compared with £ - The sea exports, on the other nand,show
an in crease of per cent, chiefly in specie, rice, wheat and
coffee, which can he accounted for hy the fact that the land
routes were closed throughout the greater part of the year, whic.
isulted in larger re-exports hy sea than usual. ^
77 fl/per cent of the import trade was with India, per cent
with ’Irao. *** Persia, <53 P er cent vriUi the AraT) coas t ,ana
the balance with America and Japan. Of the export trade 38'? per
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cent was with Persia, 25^8 per cent with India, 25*2 witn ‘iraQ.
and 10*o per cent with the Arab coast. The export per-centage %
for Persia was much above the average, doubtless owing to the
deflection to that country of a considerable amount of goods
which would.normally have found their way to Central Arabia.
Details of imports and exports 'by sea are g iven in ■' 6 <k* .
Ot» ^ t&jafV>~ 'TrJiU^AA-' tty***** 6reUe
1 (uJtyL, era built ('-.rv.j tine year, of an aggregate value
of i: I2M7 . This figure is not included in the trade tables.
// ^ ShA PISHE RIAS.
The only truly s local produce of Kuwait is that yielded by the
harbour fisheries, which are a valuable asset. Besides float-
and-weight nets and lines, traps or tidal weirs,constructed of
reed hurdles, are also employed;the fish enter them with the /X/
flowing tide and are left behind at the ebb.The majority of the
fish caught is consumed locally, but a small proportion is dried|
and exported to Basrah and elsewhere.
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Neither Kuwait nor its environs^can boast any agricultural
resources. There are no date plantations, no fields-and not manyj
kitchen gardens. A few small villages to the south east of Ivuwaij
supply a limited guahtity of vegetables and melons. The chief
agricultural centre in the principality is Jahrah, f.ri t.oi. near]
tho f 80^ 3f Krr-'rit ?Ry, -^riont' tiwo i ;n■ ,.-^rrrA-d
1 nn i. v road f rom fc toirn. The staple crops are
wheat, barley and lucern/ Jut musk melons, water melons, pumkinsf
beans and some other vegetables are also growiv, and tiiere a^e
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