ORVZA 



UPPER INDIA SJATIVA 



Cultivation 



low-land and high-land dtu, murali, sail, low-land and high-land dman, A**, 

 kataria and ./</ l>ura. High-land dtu is sown in the higher parta of Sylhet 

 iisu. ill\- Kroadcast but occasionally transplanted. It is put down in March 

 ami April, harvested in August-September. Low-land du is groui 

 the lower parts of the district, but is never transplanted. It is sow - 

 January -February, cut in May-June. Murali is generally sown on 

 low, t laiulthan iii the case of dus of the hiuh-land form, but on higher 

 thiiii the low-land. It is put down in 1-Vbruary-March and < u- 

 June .lulv. Sail is always transplanted ; sown in April-May, trans- /. 

 planted \ uly- August, and reaped November to January. It is grown 

 on l.i'i.l almost as high as dus land. Aman, like dus, is referred to two 

 sections, according as grown on high or low ground. In the higher 

 parts it is transplanted like sail, but sown and gathered about a month 

 earlier than that crop. In the lower parts of the district one variety is 

 always sown broadcast, viz. the long-stemmed kind, Kataria is a form Kataria. 

 of dman sown in April-May, transplanted in May-June, and reaped 

 in October-November. Sail bura is grown on the very lowest land and 

 is generally irrigated ; sown in October-November, transplanted in 

 December-January, and cut in April-May. The lands used are those 

 portions of the hdors, or large natural depressions in Sylhet, which are left 

 dry by the receding of the water in the cold weather. 



The Cachar rices enumerated are dumai, murali, asra and sdil. Dumai Cachar. 

 comprises the Cachar rices which correspond with the forms of dus 

 sown broadcast on high-lands in April-May, never transplanted, and 

 reaped in July-August. Murali is sown in March-April, some- 

 times transplanted about May and reaped in June-July. Asra is 

 sown in March and April on low-lying lands, never transplanted, and 

 reaped in December. Sdil is practically the same as the sdil of the 

 Brahmaputra valley and the sdil of Sylhet. [C/. Sen, Final Kept. Settl., 

 Jaintia Parganas, 1892-7, 8-9 ; Banerjei, Final Reft. Settl, Cachar Dist., 

 1894-9, 65, 111.] 



United Provinces. The area in 1905-6 was 7,078,563 acres: 4,252,528 U. Prov. 

 acres in Agra, and 2,826,035 acres in Oudh. In Agra the largest areas 

 occur in Gorakhpur, 976,423 acres ; Basti, 700,314 acres ; Allahabad, 

 285,503 acres ; and Azamgarh, 277,401 acres. In Oudh : Gonda, 565,895 

 acres; Bahraich, 236,399 acres; Sultanpur, 277,039 acres; and Barabanki, 

 262,225 acres ; etc. 



Methods of Cultivation. Duthie and Fuller give a full and comprehen- 

 aive account of the cultivation in these provinces ; the races are very 

 numerous, strongly marked, and may be assorted under three groups : (1) 

 those with a tall habit of growth, with the ear protruded from the sheath, 

 feathery and drooping, and with thin usually yellow-husked grain ; (2) 

 those with a shorter habit of growth and stouter stems, with the ear not 

 so prominent and carried more erect than that of the preceding, and with 

 thick yellow or red-husked grain ; (3) those with short, strong stem, ear 

 -partially enclosed in the sheath and grain-husk, dark-coloured or black. 

 The first are most highly prized, the commonest being known as noha, 

 bdnsmatti, bansphal and jhilma. Of the second, seondhi and sumhdra are 

 the principal, while sathi is the most important of the third. Munji is a 

 term of varying meaning, denoting in some places high-class rice, in others 

 being merely a term for rice sown broadcast. Another classification is 

 into transplanted from seed-beds or sown broadcast. As a rule, the finer 



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