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 196 O. F. TINGE grown in the monsoon, and afterwards there is enough water for about 4 acres of ,vai,ujvm rice and 2 acres of In the absence of a water channel this water runs low part of the field and is lifted once and in twice on to the sugarcane land. sugarcane. down to a 8omo &ss It was obvious that the following improvements were needed :--- (1) The tank required clemring of silt or to have the bund rMsed. (2) The water channel needed telmir so that the water coold be taken to any pat of the field ly gravity. (3) Some embankments agMnst flood water from the river were needed. (4) The land needed proper fencing against wild animals from the adjoining jungle, which do ranch damage. Having tle river ou two sides, it needed fencing on only tvo sides. (5) The 'hole needed to be properly laid off into level plots of reasonable size, so .as to admit of osy cnltivafion, instead of being divided into very small and irregular shaped plots, 'ih ba,,ds in between, *hich occupied an excessive amount of space. account of the excessive sub-dwson On tation of the land it is hopeless to contemplate bility of any such improvements. and fragmen- the possi. Case No..o.--S,o'vey Nos. , 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13 a,d 6 of Shitgeo,, tah,l,'a Rat,atliri, district Rat,a#iri. Case No. I refers to an area which is held almost entirely by cultivators. In some parts of the Kenken the .bulk of the rice land is in the hands of non-cultivating landlords. Naturally in such cases the holdings tend to be larger, and the frag- mentation less, but this case which occurs at 8hirgson, where the Government Farm is situated, gives an instructive example of the way in which such holdings are becoming subdivided and fragmented. good rice land. It will be block of 6 acres of rice The ares consists of a block of noticed that one holder has a nice land; but most of the holdings are badly split up, as can be seen from the map and state- ment. This case is intended to indicate merely the extent of fragmentation of this class of holdings.