Area mad 

 Production in 

 UOt-7, 



GOSSYPIUM 



BOMBAY SUPPLY CULTIVATION 



Bombay 



d.-sh. 1, -jo 1,673 acres; Dharwar, 581,950 ; Bijapur, 455,864 j Ahmedabad, 



Broach, 274,699 ; Sind, 218,050 ; Belgaum, 183,'J()7 ; Ahmed- 



nagar, 79, (52(5. The area of cotton in the Native States of the Bombay 



:.-IK v is au important factor in the Indian cotton supply. This came 



'I ."> to L', 570,985 acres. Kathiawar has usually one to two million Kathiawar. 



ami Baroda half a million acres under the crop. The Native States 



mid British districts together thus show the Bombay Presidency with a 



rot t on area of 6,176,970 acres in 1904-5. The yield for the same year was 



Kj bales of 400 lb., or 3,189,285 cwt. The estimated area and yield 



for the following year were 6,108,900 acres, yielding 1,117,000 bales, in 



Bombay (including Native States) ; and 265,000 acres, yielding 79,000 bales, 



in Sind (including Native States), giving totals of 6,373,900 acres and 



1 . 1 ( .i;,000 bales. The Final Memorandum for the year 1906-7 gives a total 



of 3,995,499 acres for the British districts, including Sind, and of 3,462,854 



acres for the Native States, a grand total of 7,458,353 acres. This estimate 



is said to be 49 '9 per cent, in excess of the average of the preceding ten 



years. The estimated yield during the same year is 824,052 bales in the 



British districts (including Sind), 1,071,243 bales in the Native States. 



The total is thus 1,895,295 bales, an increase of 132*9 per cent, on the 



yield of the preceding ten years. 



Traffic. In order to arrive at some tangible conception of the local 

 and foreign interests in the cotton of this Presidency, it may be useful 

 to analyse production and supply in the light of the official returns of supply, 

 trade by rail and river and by sea coastwise, from and into town and 

 Presidency. The most interesting features are the supplies drawn by the 

 town from Kathiawar, from the Presidency of Bombay itself, from Berar 

 and from the Central Provinces. The adjustment arrived at shows the Pre- 

 sidency in 1905-6 to make a net export of 2,765,696 cwt., and assuming 

 this to be drawn exclusively from local production (viz. in 1905-6, 1,117,000 

 bales or 3,989,285 cwt.), a balance of 1,223,589 cwt. would be the net 

 supply retained by the Presidency. It is not, of course, necessarily the 

 case that all the actual exports of a tract of country are drawn from its Local 

 own production : an error exists in all such calculations which is eliminated c 

 by dealing with the whole of India, and for a number of years, not one year. 

 It is useful, however, to ignore such errors and to analyse the figures as 

 they stand. Accordingly, the port town of Bombay is shown to have 

 imported by (internal transactions) rail and by sea coastwise, 10,583,652 

 cwt., and to have exported by these routes 261,070 cwt., thus showing 

 a net import of 10,322,582 cwt., and, adding the foreign imports, viz. 

 158,838 cwt., a total net supply of 10,481,420 cwt. The foreign exports 

 (external transactions) came to 5,289,691 cwt., and thus there remained 

 5,191,729 cwt. as the supply for the Bombay town mills, or, adding the Bombay 

 Presidency surplus (viz. 1,223,589 cwt.), 6,415,318 cwt. are shown as 

 having been available for the Presidency and town of Bombay for the 

 year in question. The town of Karachi imports by rail and river ap- 

 proximately the amount which appears in her foreign exports, viz. in 

 1905-6, 709,257 cwt. In 1905-6 the total imports by rail and river 

 came to 799,721 cwt., of which the Panjab supplied 427,485 cwt., Sind sind. 

 almost as much, and the balance came from Rajputana and the United 

 Provinces. 



Agricultural Operations. A full account of the method of cultiva- operation*, 

 tion in Bombay is given by Mollison, of which the following may be 



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