South West Regional Development

In a report commissioned by the South West Regional Development Agency and the Countryside Agency in 2002, it was forecast that organic production is set to double by 2005 and that organically managed land will increase by 100%. 

A Georgian collapse creates the necessary conditions for a dramatic shift in the regional balance of power that under a worst case scenario would probably be characterized by 1) a PKK destabilization of southeastern Turkey (see Mehmet Ali Birand, Posta Newspaper, Sept. 17 wherein Russian authorities warned Turkey not to assist Chechen rebels or risk the resumption of PKK attacks), which would then, 2) facilitate the development of an air and land corridor connecting the Russian forward deployment in the South Caucasus with northern Iraq, thereby 3) extending Russian influence further into the Persian Gulf and the Middle East. Such a future could disrupt or entirely cut off the East-West energy transit corridor concepts that have been promoted by the United States and which stretch from the central Asian states through the Caucasus via Turkey into Europe. 

Table 3.2 lists the development of polyolefins in various countries in 1996-2002. Polypropylene staple maintained a high growth rate of IVo, particularly in West Europe and Taiwan, where the growth rate reached 20 and 15%i, respectively. Filament yarn grew by 1%, which consisted of 4%i in China and South Korea, 5%i in the remaining Asia region, 3% in West Europe, and 1% in Taiwan and Latin America. 

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