24 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 



Apart from its qualities of yield, it requires less water than 

 the best local varieties, such as Muzaffarnagar, and is likely 

 to take the place of the latter in the canal tracts owing to 

 recurrent shortages of the water. In one of the private 

 estates in Oudh in which there are 75 acres under this 

 wheat, the crop, which is being threshed out by the Depart- 

 ment, has given an average of 25 maunds of grain and 45 of 

 hhusa per acre." {Pioneer, April 9th, 1916.) 



" Figures have been received from Co-operative Societies 

 as to the relative yield of Pusa 12 and deshi wheat. In two 

 neighbouring societies, in the Central Circle, the average 

 yield of Pusa 12 was 19 maunds per acre and of deshi 16J 

 maunds. The former wheat stood the test of a dry season 

 satisfactorily. Crop cutting experiments were carried out 

 in fields where only one irrigation was possible; and the 

 yield of Pusa wheat was 17 maunds as compared to 14J 

 from deshi. On an average, the former wheat yielded sub- 

 stantially more bhusa." {Pioneer, April 8th, 1916.) 



These results enable a rough estimate to be formed of 

 the annual increase in value of the crop which will be 

 obtained when the whole of the wheat-growing area of the 

 United Provinces is replaced by Pusa 12 or some similar 

 improved type. As far as yield of grain and hhusa are 

 concerned, the increased j3roduction due to Pusa 12 comes 

 to over twelve rupees an acre. If the improved grain 

 quality is estimated at three annas a maund and if the 

 average production is put at sixteen maunds to the acre, 

 the increase in the value of the crop from this cause would 

 be three rupees an acre. Considering that Pusa 12 already 

 commands a premium of more than four annas a maund in 

 the local bazaar, the above estimate is well within the truth. 

 If, therefore, we take into consideration both yield and 

 quality, the substitution of the country wheats by Pusa 12 

 means an immediate average increase of fifteen rupees an 

 acre or £7,000,000 per annum for the whole of the United 

 Provinces. 



While the local transactions in Indian wheat are con- 

 siderably more important than the export trade, neverthe- 



