The Financing of Agriculture

Kate Phylaktis

Chapter 2 in The Banking System of Cyprus, 1995, pp 23-41 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Cyprus during the nineteenth century was sparsely populated. The British colonial government’s census in 1881 showed that the population of Cyprus was 186,000, that is, about equal to its population at the end of the Venetian era.1 Most of the population, about 80 per cent, lived in the rural areas and worked as farmers.2 This is how a traveller to Cyprus in 1814 described their agricultural produce: Cyprus is remarkable for the finest of its fruits, wine, oil and silk; the oranges are as delicious as those of Tripoli, and the wine which is of two kinds, red and white, is sent down to the Levant, where it is manufactured for the English market. The silk is also of two kinds, yellow and white, but the former is preferred. The wheat is of superior quality, and rice might be cultivated in several parts of the island.3

Keywords: Interest Rate; Commercial Bank; Member Society; Unlimited Liability; Immovable Property (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12868-6_2

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