'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎259r] (522/982)

" The approximate value of the produce on the spot is—
Wheat
at 40 to
60 cents per Kazarun maund.
Barley
at 25 to
30 ,,
9>
99
Gram
at 50 to
80 „ „
99
99
Sesame
at 70 to
100 „ „
99
99
Maithi
at 15 to
20 „ „
99
99
Dhall
at 15 to
200 „ „
99
99
Cotton
at 2| to
3 krdns „
99
99
Rice
at 50 to
cents „
99
99
“ The expenses of a ra’lyat cultivator in Kazarun, supposed to have one
wife and two children, are 10 tumans per annum.
“ The yield of wheat and barley is from ten to twelve-fold in a good year,
and three to four in a bad one.
“ Rice in a bad year yields twenty-fold and in a very good year sixty
fold ; cotton five-fold in a bad year and ten-fold in a good year.
“ Irrigation in Kazarun is generally conducted by means of qanats, and
the water thereof should in all cases be allowed free passage across grounds,
even though not belonging to the proprietor of the qandts.
“ SI oul 1 the propriety r of a qandt not wi£h to undertake any saifl cultiva
tion, he would still be made liable by Government to such taxes as may be
due by the cultivation.
“ The land in Kazarun is sown every alternate year. The portions
remaining fallow are ploughed.
“ No taxes whatever are levied by Government on gardens at Kazarun.
“ In the cultivation of the poppy at Kazarun, the proprietor provides
the land, seed and expenses of sowing ; the cultivation is then made over
to the ra’lyat, who undertakes all the labour necessary for the tending of
the crop till the season of collection, when the proprietor pays for the labour
of incision, say one krdn per man per day. The outturn is then equally
divided between the landowner and ra’lyats. No taxes are levied by Gov
ernment on the cultivation of opium at Kazarun.”
(Kinneir — Monteith — Clerk — Abbott — St. John — Felly — Jones — Foss —
Odling — Curzon, 1889 — Neivcomen, 1905 — Gibbon, 1908.)
KAZIAN, vide KHAN-I-KIRGAN.
KAZIM—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears on the Kurdistan or Jarrahl, river, near Behbehan on
the road to Shushtar.— (DeBode.)
KAZIM A BAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Kirman, 80| miles from the town of that name, on the road
to Yazd.
It contains about 35 houses and has a qandt of sweet water. Opposite
to it, on the other side of the road, is the hamlet of Kudratabad.— Wood,
October 1899.)
KEHMIN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, in the buluk of Kutn Firuz (q. v.). — {Durand,)
KEHNEH or KEHNEH ’ALlABAD— Lat. 27° 53' N. Long. 64° 39' E.
A village-fort in the province of Lar, on the route from Lar to tSaidabad,
about 20 miles from the former. It is situated in grove, on the slope of a
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