‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1919-20’ [‎270r] (87/192)

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CHAPTER IY.
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.
1.—Agriculture.
For deatils see the Season and Crop Report 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 1919 - 20 , the Report of the Agricultural
Department for 1919-20 and tables appended to the Agricultural Statistics of British India.
1.—Area of available Statistics.
The total number of villages 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 (22,934J) dropped
by one. Two villages in Broach, which had been amalgamated in 1918 but were
reported as two last year, are shown as one this year. Seventeen alienated
villages in Thana, one in Batnagiri and one unsurveyed village in Nasik, lapsed
to Government and seven alienated villages in Satara were surveyed and trans
ferred from the class of “ with unavailable ” to “ with available ” statistics. The
total reported area 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. showed a net increase of 7,461 acres
owing to survey operations in Ahmedabad ( + 883 acres) and Satara ( + 1,672
acres) and to the addition of the area of one Uddhad village in Kaira (4,770
acres) which remained excluded last year. Variations in other districts are
small and mostly due to corrections in survey records. In Sind the total
number of villages remained stationary but there was a net addition of 27,051
acres to the total reported area of the province. Accretions from the river
came to about 9,700 acres in Karachi, 2,800 acres in Sukkur and 4,200 acres
in the Upper Sind Frontier districts and survey operations and corrections
in previous records added about 3,700 acres in Karachi, Larkana and
Upper Sind Frontier. Nawabshah shows an unexplained increase of 6,533
acres and the transfpr of some forest lands from certain dehs in Sukkur
to the Kashmor taluka of the Upper Sind Frontier district adds 16,575 acres
to the latter with a corresponding reduction in the former. Excluding 1,89,600
acres of 6^ forest villages in East Khandesh which have again been relegated
to unavailable statistics, the net area for which statistics were regularly
collected and reported 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. , increased by 11,300 acres with a
corresponding diminution in the non-reported area, owing mainly to the
transfer to the former of the area of the 7 newly surveyed villages in the Satara
district mentioned above. Estimates of the probable cropping of the areas for
which statistics of actual cropping were not forthcoming, were as usual received
from all districts except Batnagiri. They were supplied for Batnagiri by the
Director of Agriculture. The area in Sind rose by 27,000 acres for the reasons
explained above.
2.—Cropped Areas.
1. 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 gross area cropped showed a net rise of
46*2 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees acres or by about 20 per cent, over the area of the previous year.
Early favourable rains following a year of famine were made use of everywhere
for sowing food and fodder crops on an extended scale, particularly in districts
where cultivation had receded most in the previous year. In Sind also the gross
cropped area rose by more than 50 per cent, over the previous year owing to
timely and steady inundation of the river. But in no case except Satara and
Broach and Thana to a small extent did the area show any advance over the
figures recorded in 1917-18. Compared with this year the gross area was less
fij 1 5 per cent, 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 and 8*8 per cent, in Sind. The area
cropped more than once rose by 71 per cent, 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 owing to
plentiful late rains. This occurred mainly in the districts of the Panch Mahals
ftud Surat in Gujarat, Poona, Ahmednagar and Nasik in the Deccan, and Belgaum
^ud Dharwar in the Karnatak. In Sind, Larkana, Sukkur and Upper Sind
rontier districts showed similar results, giving a net increase of 53 6 per cent,
u consequence of the extension under the cropped area the area under fallows
deeded from 107*4 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of acres to 65*4 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees or by 39 per cent, 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.
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