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Chap. IV.
PRODUCTION
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DISTRIBUTION.
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BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
rj. Outturn of Crops.
The following table gives the average outturn of the principal crops by percentages
.denoting a nSrmal crop, one valued at 1 2 annas m the rupee)
No.
District.
1 Ahmedabad
2 i Kaira
2 Panch Mahals
4 ! Broach
2 ! Surat
6 | West Khandesh
7 1 East Khandesh
8 j Nasik
9 : Ahmednagar
10 Poona
u | Sholapur
12 1 Satara
13 ' Belgaum
14 ! Bijapur
15 | Dharwar
16 1 Thana
1 7 Kolaba
18 1 Ratnagiri
Kanara
Karachi
Hyderabad
Sukkur
Larkana
Upper Sind Frontier
Thar and Parkar
8 .—Locusts.
The whole 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. was free from the visitations of locusts throughout the year
Grasshoppers appeared in'the districts of Nasik, Poona, Belgaum and Dharwar. The
kharif crops suffered to some extent by their depredations, and remissions of revenue were
granted in deserving cases. The most serious damage was caused to the rice crops near
Belgaum. The loss in this district would have been considerably greater but for the
institution of a campaign, under the supervision of an officer of the Agricultural Department,
which resulted in the destruction of 740 millions of hoppers at a cost of about Rs. 2,000.
9.—Prices.
For details see Prices and Wages in India.
Except bajri in Gujarat and the Deccan and rice in Gujarat and the Konkan the prices
of the staple food-grains ruled lower than in the preceding year. They remained, however,
above the normal. The amount of jowari purchasable per rupee rose by 3 se p rs ^
Kaira and by ij to 2 seers in other parts of Gujarat and in Khandesh.. Elsewhere in
Deccan and in the Karnatak and Sind it ruled about ^ to 1 seer easier than in the previous )ea^
The contraction of the area under bajri led to a rise in price by \ to ^ seer m uja ^
and the Deccan. In the Karnatak bajri was 1 to ij seers cheaper, and in Sind it so
about the same price as in the previous year at three stations and was cheaper by \ t° 1
at three. Rice fetched about the same price as in the preceding year at half the reporting s a
In the others it varied in price by about one-half to one seer per rupee cheaper or dearer.
quantity of wheat purchasable per rupee rose by 2 to 2\ seers in South Gujarat and t
Deccan and at twx> stations in Sind. Elsewhere the price ruled cheaper by \ t0 ee
Pulses throve well under favourable late rains and gram was sold from 1 to 3 ^^i^^CThout
easier than in the previous year. The price of jagri ruled about £ of a seer dearer Uy
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 in Lower Sind. In Upper Sind it was | a seer cheaper, owing P re ^ ces [ n
to increased imports from Northern India. Under the incentive afforded by hig P ^ ^
the previous season the total area under cotton increased by about 13 per cent,, T , u reSU lting
was damaged by late rains in the Deccan and by frost in Gujarat and Sind, f jr j n dian
outturn w 7 as 12*5 per cent, below that of the previous year. The keen deman ver y high
cotton continued, and prices were consequently from 9 to 14 per cent, above t e ^ ^
prices obtained in the preceding year. The price of Broach cotton exceeded 0 f
previous year by 9 per cent, and w r as nearly 41 per cent, above the average. h ^
Khandesh cotton exceeded that of the previous year and the average by 14 an “ ^ ^