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ORAMINE^. 



Commerce. — The following table shows the exports of Rice 

 (husked) from India during the last ten year^ in thousands 

 of cwts : 



Year. 



BtLrma, 



Bengal. 



Madras. 



Bom- 

 bay, 



Sind, Total. 





Value in 

 lakhs of 

 Bupeea. 



1880-81. 



1881-82. 



1882-83 



1883-84 



1884-85 



1885-86 



1886-87 



1887-88 



1888-89 



1889-90 



16,730 

 16,690 

 21,249 

 1 6,994 

 13,507 

 19,084 

 18,216 

 17,879 

 ] 4,205 



18,259 



6,717 

 7,617 

 7,838 

 7,394 

 6,035 

 6,879 

 5,902 

 7,996 



6,417 



5,992 



( 



Average for 

 10 years... 



2,363 927 



1,549 614 



1,319 552 



1,843 521 



1,403 677 



1,181 521 



1,564 639 



1,438 764 



1,538 589 



32 

 49 

 71 

 80 

 80 

 149 

 139 



26,769 

 28,519 

 31,029 

 26,832 

 21,702 

 27,814 

 26,460 



72 28,149 



19 



70 



76 



22,768 

 26,774 



26,681 



89,717 

 82,496 

 84,401 

 83,289 

 71,228 

 91,672 

 87,648 

 92,251 

 78,453 

 100 473 



86,162 



The estimated total production of rice in 1888-89 has been 



given as : 



Bengal 14,269,223 tons 



Madras 2,693,916 



Bombay and Sind 



399,757 



N.-W. Provinces and Oudh . . 2,420,768 



Punjab 271,293 



Central Provinces 1 ,622,385 



j> 



)f 



}> 



B 



iirma 3,039,397 



Assam 608,846 



9S 



9f 



n 



25,325,585 tons. 



In the same year India imported from beyond its frontier 

 1,151,450 cwts., the greater portion coming from Nepaul. Of 

 the exports, about 50 per cent, goes to Europe, 30 per cent, to 

 Eastern ports, and the remainder for the use of the emigrants 

 in Mauritius, Reunion, the West Indies. South America, and 



