'Military Report on Russian Turkistan or Central Asia' [‎34v] (73/168)

Cotton.
Cereals,
&c.
5G
Of this amount of cultivated land, the following
areas were, in 1900-01, devoted to the cultivation of
cotton:—
Ferghana
Acres.
511,936
Syr Daria
-
89,100
Samarkand
-
61,627
Trans-Caspia
-
28,890
Semirechia* -
Bokhara
-
162,000
Khiva
-
175,500
Total area under cotton
1,029,053
The crop amounted to 353,970 tons of cotton, but
approximately only 6,490,000 acres remain available for
the produce of foodstuffs for the inhabitants and their
cattle or, in other words, only about three-quarters of
an acre per soul of the population.
The harvests of 1900-01 yielded approximately the
following amounts of foodstuffs, fodder, &c. in the
Russian provinces :—
Tons.
Trans-Caspia -
47,242
Samarkand
353,897
Ferghana
411,011
Syr Daria
640,323
Semirechia
38,827
Total
- 1,491,300
including wheat, rye, barley, oats, millet, rice, buck
wheat, “ jugara,” f potatoes, peas and, in Ferghana
especially, a large amount of vegetables. The amount
of seed required to produce these crops amounted to
207,858 tons. If this be set aside and, together with
* Cotton is not cultivated in Semirechia.
t A kind of maize, crushed to a coarse flour or meal; it is
largely given to animals, but is also eaten by the people,