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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. Sugarcane yields about 1,400 lbs. per acre
 * ^f t^® b®^t ^i°6' to -500 fts. per acre of barley