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 SIZE OF LAND HOLDINGS 195 Survey No. 7, garden land growing cocoanuts:--- S ub-d ivis[on s-- Gun t has 1. Ganpu Dodda ... 1 2. Ganpu Birs ... 1 . Gs, npn Dodd& ... 4. G&npu Br ... 5. Mahabalu Marl ... lr 6. Rams An&pa Nak ... 7. Mahabalu Marl ... 1 8. Shr|dhar Maanath Shahbog Total ... 26 Survey No. 33, rice land:-- tlD-ttVtStOl18--- lm 2. . 6. 7. 8. Mahalxml kern Sadsshlv Naik Tulsl kor SMv Timspa Damgauds Mshabslu Mar Ganpu Dodda Gaupu Bira Rsmchander Ssbabhatts ... Dasu Vaikanth Psi and Wasudeo Krishna Psi 7 9. Kupp& Maragauda ... 1 G uathas Total 1 acre 11 gunthas A cultivator can sometimes le,se land contiguous to his Own holding, and in this way some temporary unification of the land is effected, though it does not go very far. The following gives a typical case of the area actually cultivated by one of the most su[stant[al cultivators in the village, t,.:-- Ganpu B[ra cultivated 12 acres of rice land, of wh!ch he owns $ acres and hires  acres: the 12 acres whtch .he cultivates is divided into I different plots. Physical ond;tfon of the land The whole of the land is rice land, except that on the edge of the r[.ver a few fields contain a certain number of cocoanut trees which are badly looked after and not [n'igated. There is a tank in the jungle close by which, it s stated, formerly provided suffic[e.nt [rrlgat[on water to grow a second crop of wangan rice ('.., hot weather rice) or sugarcane on prac- tically the whole area, to which it was conducted by .a channel round the upper contour of the field, The tank s now much silted up and the channel out of order. Rice is