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CHAPTER
III.
AGRICULTURE.
— Harvests— General agricultural features — Irrigation— Ploughing and Husbandry —Fanaine prices—Former prices.
Agriculture Prices
In other
a special chapter has been given to agriculture: this is hardly necessary here, as the subject has been
district accounts
Agriculture.
treated under the account of the adjoining and similar The principal crops are given in the following table. It appears that there are 993,858 acres under cultivation, in which, by a system of double-cropping, 1,311,469 acres of crops are sown each year district of Bahraich.
The
principal crop areas are
408,171
rice.
190,468 wheat.
108,200 barley. 95,035 juar. 85,519 arhar. 59,844 kodo. 52,910
alsi.
1,000,147
Seven crops, then, cover a million of acres, or three-fourths of the whole, and the food-supplies can be estimated by calculating the out-turn of each of the above. The kharif crop, that which is cut in October and December, amounts to 619,292 acres; the spring, or rabi harvest, to 692,177 acres.
The
out-turns are the Out-turn.
of yellow gur or
raw
same
P®^ ^°^® or kodo. sugar.
as in Bahraich, varying from about 1,900 lbs.
- ^f t^® b®^t ^i°6' to -500 fts. per acre of barley
Sugarcane yields about 1,400 lbs. per acre
