The most distinctive natural product of Italy - silk, and quantity of the crude and thrown exported

The most distinctive natural product of Italy - silk, and quantity of the crude and thrown exported silk makes approximately 57 500 000$ annually. The silk culture is continued on all extent of kingdom though the industry prospers most extensively in mountain and Lombardy Bottom, in the north. More than 550 000 persons are occupied in cultivation of silkworms, and the annual crop of a cocoon approaches 100 000 000 pounds. Silk - 'throw', or spinning, is the basic manufacturing industry, and the quantity of silk spun and exported, approximately 45 000 tons which most part goes to France. After silk products of the country which make the basic export, are an olive oil, fruit (oranges, lemons, , , fig., dates, and pistachio nuts), and wine (in flanks). Export of an olive oil and export of fruit - everyone approximately the one fifth export of silk, and wine export approximately one sixth. Other important and characteristic export - crude hashish and flax, sulphur, eggs, has made a coral, woods and the roots used for colouring and , rice, marble, and straw. The basic import - wheat, for agricul [117], ture though in general is pursued, is still in the return state of efficiency, and a grain average crop - only one third, that it is in the Great Britain. One
The eighth total sum of wheat should support people, should be imported. Actually, the total sum of the foodstuffs lifted in kingdom, is much less than the demanded quantity to be, for example, in the inhabitant, it is no more than one half of that is lifted in France. In particular there is a deficiency of meat, and quantity of the meat lifted in the inhabitant, is the lowest in Europe. As consequence Italians badly eat, and it is estimated it of four percent. From annual death loss is caused by an impoverishment of blood because of a wholesome food lack. After wheat and a crude clap, the following basic import - coal as Italy does not have any realizable coal fields. In the greatest possible degree hydraulic power is used as the driving power instead of coal, especially in iron industries. [118] important import also - fish as, owing to the big number of the fast days, which Italian people mark, and to tenderness and deficiency
From meat fish - very much general article of consumption. Value for six millions dollars is annually imported, and probably equal quantity is received from local fishery as is more than 22 000 courts and boats and more than 70 000 men occupied in this industry. After a silk throw the most characteristic Italian manufacturing industry - what have the artistic or semiartistic nature, such as creation from fine ceramics, porcelain, glasswares, mosaics, and a lace. Venice (154 000) and Genoa (225 000) is still the basic seaports and shopping centres of Italy, but in trading value these known cities - only simple shades of what they were once. Naples (529 000), the greatest city, is a place of the small enterprise, for its import, mainly grain cereals three or four times value its export which is mainly the cheap country, make. Milan (457 000) and Turin (348 000) is great shopping centres of northern interior, and the most succeeding places in kingdom, being the main places of the industry throwing silk. Milan - also the main place of the Italian manufacturing of a tableware. Palermo (284 000) and Messina (150 000), in [119] Sicily, is the main ports for export of the Italian fruit, and also the Italian fish
(Anchovies, tunas, etc.). Rome (474 000) and Florence (207 000) owes their main importance to their art interest and their historical associations, but Florence has an important manufacturing of fine ceramics and mosaics. Rome - the main place of the government. Drivings (127 000), in Sicily, is the main place of the Italian chartreuse export trade. Livorno (104 000), port of Florence, is the main place of export trade braiding straw. It is necessary to notice, that despite degree of Italy of a coastal line the most part of its foreign trade is spent to the north by means of railways that tunnel the Alpes.
Italy and its main commercial centres.
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