4,500,000 4,000,000 3,500,000
Hectares
3,000,000 2,500,000 war years
2,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000
Ye ar 19 13 19 19 19 25 19 31 19 37 19 43 19 49 19 55 19 61 19 67 19 73 19 79 19 85 19 91 19 97
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Year Fig 1. The expansion of area harvested for rice in the last 100 years Fig 2 summarizes the expansion in areas harvested for rice in banner years when area increases showed 500,000 has increments from the previous banner year. The rapid expansion of rice land from ~ 0.6 M has in 1903 to ~1.2 Million has in 1909, a 100% increase in area in only 6 years could be attributed to bringing back into production some 345,000 has previously cultivated but made idle by the Filipino-American Wars from 1986-1903 ( Corpuz, 1997) and the clearing of additional land for agriculture.
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Hectares
4 5 2.
3 2 6 1 0.
2 1.
5 1.
1 3.
5 3.
4
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1920
1934
1952 1958
1974
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Fig 2 The banner years of increasing areas harvested for rice
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