PRODUCTION IN INDIA 



BRA88ICA 



CAMPE9TRI8 



Upper India 



are conrrrm-'l, the present plant is mainly grown as a pure crop, 

 whilf s'/rs-)/( ami rat are almost entirely produced as mixed crops. It 

 thru-fore tluit the area in these provinces shown as " pure " can 

 ..a as tori (lutni, lahi) or rape. According to tin- Agricultural 



/ India (19O1 2 to 1905-6), compiled by the Director-General Ana. 

 .listics, thorn wciv in the United Provinces during 1901-2, liM.l.Ui I'roducUon. 

 -II tons of pure rape; in 1902-3, 140,296 acres yielding rowcroi*. 

 in 1903 1, 131,926 acres yielding 29,643 tons; in 1901 5, 

 <) acres vi.-lding 18,800 tons; in 1905-6, 154,700 acres yielding 

 *> tons; and in 1906-7, 153,400 acres yielding 30,000 tons. But 

 area of mixed crops, that is to say of mustard and rape, grown along MI> crap*. 

 other crops was much greater, namely, in 1901-2, 1,461,000 acres 

 1 7 tons of seed ; in 1903-4, 2,429,000 acres and 542,000 tons of 

 in 1904-5, 2,509,000 acres and 336,000 tons of seed ; in 1905-6, 

 J6.000 acres and 398,000 tons of seed ; and in 1906-7, 2,210,000 acres 

 424,000 tons of seed. Rape is " produced in greatest abundance HU1 D itricu. 

 le districts which border on the Himalayan Terai, and is cultivated 

 over the hills up to altitudes of 11,000 feet " (Atkinson). It is very 

 _ r rown in the districts of the Ganges- Jumna Doab, where it generally 

 as a subordinate crop in vegetable gardens. Concluding their 

 >unt of this product these authors say, " The export of rape is one Export*. 



leading features in the commerce of these Provinces, and centres at 

 mpore." 



" Rape Seed " is an important article of export trade from the Panjab Panjab. 

 it is grown in Kashmir and Afghanistan. Unfortunately no Panjab 

 er has as yet studied the mustards botanically, and it is not, therefore, 

 possible to discover to what extent the reports that have appeared should 

 be accepted as rape or be assigned to colza or even to mustard. These 

 crops are largely grown in Ferozepore, Hissar, Jhelum, Rawalpindi, D era chief Districts, 

 lil Khan, Lahore, Gujrat, Dera Ghazi Khan, Jhang and Karnal 

 acts, in the order of importance named. Fully three-fourths of the 

 is raised on unirrigated land, a fact that must commend it very Unirrigated 

 itly to the cultivators. The traffic centres very largely in Ferozepore 

 the exports go mainly to Karachi. The year 1900-1 was one that 

 might be described as having been abnormally favourable to rape-seed 

 cultivation in the Panjab. The area under the crop became more than Panjab Areas 



I double the average of the preceding years, and was returned at 1,699,700 BeTiewed - 

 The yield was also remarkably fine, so that it was described as 

 T cent, above normal, and the total yield became 260,167 tons. 

 1900-1 both area and yield have somewhat declined, though in 

 -6 the area 'was again recorded as 1,699,700 acres, but the yield 

 194,900 tons. 



Nothing of any value can be learned regarding the rape, sarson and C. Prov. 

 mustard cultivation in the Central Provinces, Berar, Rajputana, Central Bombay. 

 India, Sind and Bombay. Mollison (Textbook Ind. Agri.) does not refer 



n'se crops. "Gujarat Rape" of the Bombay and Karachi trade "Qujr*t 

 returns would appear to be mainly a special and superior quality of the Rap *' 

 present plant. But the total area under the crop in the province of 

 Gujarat is not great, being usually about 500 acres, so that the expression 

 Gujarat Rape " denotes a quality of seed not necessarily procured from 

 the province indicated (see p. 183). However, the total area returned 

 for Sind and Bombay (including their Native States) as devoted to rape 



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