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APPENDIX A.
PROGRESS OF IRRIGATED DISTRICTS.
GODAVERY.
Before the Works.
| Average Revenus. | ||
| £ | ||
| 1836 to ’46 | 220,000 | |
| After the Works were begun in 1846, | ||
| Revenue. | Increase per annum. | |
| 1836 to ’51 | £238,000 | 18,000 |
| ’52 to ’56 | 250,000 | 30,000 |
| ’57 to ’61 | 317,000 | 97,000 |
| ’62 to ’66 | 432,000 | 212,000 |
| ’67 to ’71 | 476,000 | 256,000 |
| ’72 to ’65 | 558,000 | 338,000 |
| 2,271,000 | ||
| Average Revenue per Annum | 378,000 | 158,000 |
| Former Revenue | 220,000 | |
| Average Increase | 158,000 | |
| Years since the Works | 30 | |
| Total in 30 Years | 4,740,000 | |
| Add for ’76 | 350,000 | |
| Total Increase in 31 Years | 5,090,000 | |
Thus this one district has increased in Revenue by 150 per cent., £340,000 a year, at which rate if the 160 districts of India had increased, there would have been an addition of 54 millions a year.
The Exports have increased from an average of £60,000 to £800,000; and the Imports from £23,000 to £180,000.
