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besar or goradu type with a deep subsoil. But Goghari seems extremely 
adaptable, and is capable of flourishing, as well as Broach deshi, over 
the greater part of Gujarat, as is illustrated by its general extension in 
recent years. 
II, GoGHARI COTTON. 
1. History of Goghari cotton. 
Goghart cotton, the extension of cultivation of which in Southern 
Gujarat, has been so disastrous for the quality of the staple in this part of 
India, has only been recognized as a separate type in very recent years. 
Where it came from we do not know. Its name would suggest that it 
originally was brought from Gogha, a part of the Ahmedabad District in 
Kathiawar, to the south of Bhavnagar, and that from there it may have 
been carried across the Gulf of Cambay to the Jambusar Taluka of the 
Broach District, where it is now grown in its purest form. But of this there 
is no direct evidence, and the first notice of this cotton occurs in 1891. In 
that year in a communication to the Bombay Trades Association! the 
following statement was made :— | 
“The only foreign seed introduced in Broach was the Goghari seed. 
That seed has been brought into Broach District during the last fifteen 
years, and the cotton produced from that seed was of an inferior quality. 
His firm first sent a consignment of this cotton home; it was reported 
upon as harsh, deficient in staple, but of good colour and fine class. But 
since the Goghart seed has been acclimatized, the result was that the 
Goghari ( seed ) cotton had been passing in Liverpool as fine machine-ginned 
Broach, with an allowance of 1/32d. to 3/32d. per pound of the class, 
but when shipped as Fully Good Broach with mutual allowance terms, it 
fetched 1/84. to 3/16d. per pound on the class sold. This kapas paid the 
raiyat because the lint outturn was better.” 
A few years later the variety was definitely established as a recognized 
type of cotton cultivated in the northern part of the Broach District. 
Middleton? in 1896 describes it as follows :— 
“Tn Goghari the bolls are globose, and larger than those of deshi.* The 
segments of the capsules are broad and do not recurve when the fruit is ripe. 
The lint-hairs-surrotnding each seed separate readily from those of the 
1 Extracts from the Proceedings of the Cotton Trades Association, July 31, 1891 : Commu- 
nication by Messrs. Narandas Rajaram & Co. 
2 Agricultural Ledger, 1895, no. 8. 
* By deshi, ordinary Broach deshi cotton is meant. 
