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 SUL CHAPTER II. AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE. Crop arca -Irrigation-Food of the people-Fish--Prices-- Traffic--Exports and imports- Manufactures Communications. Crop area.—The following table shows the crop area in detail as derived from the settlement records for the old district of Sultanpur. This is probably correct with the important exception that dufasli crops (the area bearing two crops) are not entered. The entire area under cultivation was 505,520* acres, the detailed crops in the accompanying table only account for 488,423 acres; this will leave 17,000 acres or 3} per cent. for fallow-fair percentage; and the remainder will be the area nnder cultivation cropped once, but about 20 per cent of the land is cropped twice, so that the crop area really should be about 600,000 acres. The present area of cultivation is 890 square miles or 509,600+ acres, so the changes of boundary have practically not affected the area under cultivation. In order to correct the settlement return a considerable area should be added to the kharif crops ; this return was prepared in the cold weather, the cold weather crops were entered, and the fields which had borne a kharif barvest, and which exhibited the stubble, but crops of kharif which had been replaced by cold weather crops, were not apparent to the observer, and were not entered. The crops which have suffered most from this omission are juar and the maset, or mixed crop of mash (or urd) and moth, The main feature of Sultanpur cultivation is the predominance of the two staples—wheat and rice--to the exclusion of maize, barley, &c. High cultivation such as tobacco, sugarcane, poppy, and vegetable-requiring repeated irrigations amounts to 32,600 acres, or about 6 per cent of the total; this is fairly good. The departmental opium return gives the opium areas at 4,103 and 3,842 acresa—about half the area in Rae Bareli. The outturn in these two years amounted to 1,430 maunds, and the amount paid to the cultivators, at Rs. 5 the ser, to Rs. 2,86,000:- KKARIT OROP9, Area in acres. .. 100 PO .. 14 Name of crop. Dhan Kapas (cotton) Sugarcane Indigo Tobacca Juar (Indian-corn) Oil seeds Vegetables Miscellaneous 201,233 5,854 8,056 oon 900 6,261 449 303 BR SEL 4,200 765 409 2,285 1 . 10,328 Total 239,127 Statistical Tables I.A.T.
 * Statistical Tables I.E.2.