Excerpt from Market Potential for U. S. Agricultural Commodities in Select Mideastern and North African Countries Surprisingly, agriculture is an important sector in the Saudi economy. Although it accounts for less than 6 percent of the gnp (1973 figures), it provides a livelihood for about half of the population. Despite a marked shift from wheat to vegetables in the irrigated areas of central Saudi Arabia, wheat production increased from tons in 1973' to about in 1974. Two other traditional Saudi crops, watermelon and dates, also experienced output increases in 1974. New poultry enterprises now produce about 8 million frozen chickens and about 70 percent of the market supply of eggs annually. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.