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CHAPTER IT.—PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.
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For—
POWER INDUSTRIES AND HANDICRAFTS
See—
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION REPORT FOR 1901-1902, PART II,
PAGES 118—124.
1. Agriculture.
For details see Season and Crop Eeport of the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. for 1903-1904 and Report of the Department
of Agriculture for 1903-1904, also Tables Nos. 3, 4 and 10 appended to the Agricultural Statistics of British India.
I.—Land Record Staff.
1. The Land Record Staff wd>s at work in all the districts of the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper and
in addition to their ordinary duties proceeded with the training of village accountants in survey
and in the preparation of the Record-of-Rights under Act IV of 1903. In some districts the
services of Circle Inspectors were also utilised in connection with the destruction of locusts.
Central classes for training Circle Inspectors in survey work were held in the head-quarter
towns of each of the three Divisions. One hundred and fifty-six Circle Inspectors attended the
classes, and of these 140 passed the subsequent examination in field and paper work. With the
assistance of Mamlatdars and Sub-divisional Officers the staff supervised the preparation of the
Record-of-Rights in 46 talukas. .
2.—Crops Areas.
!• In the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper the net cropped area fell very slightly (by about 1 per cent.)
to 23,506,000 acres. It was thus 2*4 per cent, below the normal area cropped before the famine
of 1895-1896. The fall was chiefly in the districts of ShoMpur, Bijfipur, Ndsik, Ahmednagar,
Dharwar and Belgaum, and the shrinkage 1 occurred mostly under b&jri and jowari owing to
unseasonable rains, while in Dharwdr and Bijapur it was also partly attributed to depopulation
on account of plague.. The area cropped more than once, however, increased by 6 per cent, to
675,000 acres. In Sind the net cropped area increased by over 18 per cent, to 3,797,000 acres
owing to the good inundation and the extension of cultivation on the Jamrao and Hiral Canals.
2. The gross area sown with crops in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper was practically the same
as in the previous year. The area under food crops decreased by about 12 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of acres, while
the area under non-food crops increased by 10 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of acres. In Sind there was a large
expansion of area under all important crops. The decrease under food crops was confined
to jowari and bajri and was chiefly noticeable in ShoMpur, Bijapur and KIMndesh owing to
excessive rains. The total decrease in jowari was 13 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of acres. The area under bajri fell
by 5 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of acres, the chief causes being sufficiency of food stocks and failure of the early rains.
Wheat showed an increase of 5J lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of acres in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , including Sind. The chief
reason of this was the good prices obtained in the previous year combined with favourable
conditions. Rice increased by Mkhs of acres in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. and by 96,000 acres in Sind.
The area under pulses rose by If Mkhs of acres in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. and by 76,000 acres in
Sind. Among non-food crops the most noticeable item is cotton, which increased by over 7
lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of acres.in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. and by 16,000 acres in Sind. The increase was general and,
coinciding as it did with the enormous rise in prices caused’by American speculation, it secured
large profits to the cultivators. The area under tobacco fell by 5,000 acres to 72,000 acres chiefly
because other ciops were found to pay better. Sugarcane again showed a slight improvement,
57,000 acies being cropped as against 54,000 in the previous year. The area under oil-seeds
increased by 3 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of acres, of which over 2^ lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees were credited to the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper.
The increase was fairly general but was most marked in TMsik and Bijapur. The area under
linseed was nearly double that of the previous year, while that under sesame rose by 27 per cent. 3
3. In the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper the net irrigated area amounted to 3 per cent, of the net
cropped area. In Sind the proportion rose from 83 to 86 per cent, owing to more favourable
inundation. In the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper the area irrigated from all sources fell very slightly to
/04,000 acres. The chief decrease was in the areas irrigated from wells and Government
canals, while the areas irrigated from private canals, tanks and other sources showed a consider
able increase. In Ahmedabad canal irrigation to some extent took the place of well irrigation.
In Kaira rain ceased early in October, and the area under rabi crops was curtailed and there
was less scope for irrigating such crops. The late rainfall in the Deccan and Karnatak caused
the canals and pats to flow longer than usual and filled up the tanks. Hence the area irrigated
by canals and tanks increased and there was less demand for irrigation from wells, except in
hmednagar and Sholapur, where the rainfall filled up wells that had run dry in recent years,
in roona, however, the Mutha Canals were unable to supply all the water wanted. In Sind
the area irrigated increased by over 22 per cent, to 3,264,000 acres. Irrigation from wells
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Area under
cultivation.
Crops.
Irrigation,