SORGHUM 



VULGARB 



Central Provinces 



THE GREAT MILLET 



Yield. 



C. Prov. 



Areas. 

 Districts. 



Chief Food. 



Forms Grown. 



Cold-season. 



Mixed 

 Cultivation. 



Yield. 



Improvement. 



Demonstration. 



Pan jab. 



Areas. 

 Districts. 



Yield. 



Eaces. 



Bengal. 



Areas. 



being under cultivation. The yield is given at 10 maunds grain for irrigated land 

 and 8 maunds for unirrigated. In the reports of crop experiments, returns 

 ranging from 440 to 820 Ib. have been ascertained. 



Central Provinces. The area in 1905-6 was 1,860,714 acres. The 

 largest areas in that year were : Nagpur, 423,121 acres ; Wardha, 282,536 

 acres ; Chanda, 223,130 acres ; Nimar, 202,926 acres ; Chhindwara, 

 188,982 acres ; Bhandara, 87,637 acres, etc. 



Judr constitutes the chief food of the working class, wheat and rice 

 being alike but little used by them. The white variety is the most highly 

 prized. In certain districts, such as the Upper Godavari and the neighbour- 

 hood of Sironcha in Chanda district, a robi as well as a Man/ crop is 

 obtained. Repeated mention is made (in reports on this plant) of a 

 cold-season form known as ringni. Some writers even speak of this as a hot- 

 weather plant that has recently been successfully grown as a cold-season 

 crop. It is commonly produced in the rice-country of Ramtek and Umrer. 



Sir J. B. Fuller published in 1894 A Note on the Outturn of Land under the 

 Chief Crops in the Central Provinces, in which he gives most useful particulars 

 regarding judr. He points out that the lose through its being grown as a 

 mixed crop with a pulse (mostly tur, p. 196) is very little indeed, so that the pulse is 

 a clear gain. The yield per acre averages from 450 to 950 Ib. ; 500 Ib. has been 

 accepted as the average standard. He further remarks that Nagpur, which 

 has the largest district area, is also the chief importing province and that it draws 

 on Berar. This is due very possibly to the place of judr being taken by linseed 

 and cotton. In the Settlement Report for Seoni (1900, 17), it is observed that a 

 few years ago judr was of very little importance in that district, but since the 

 last three years it has been greatly extended, and outrun the area under wheat. 

 In recent Annual Reports by the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, 

 interesting particulars will be found of valuable experiments made with a view 

 to improve the quality of the judr and the cotton grown, as also the methods 

 of cultivation pursued in the districts of Bilaspur and Raipur. Trained plough- 

 men had been sent from the Government farm, furnished with superior seed and 

 improved ploughs, to prepare and sow certain fields. The result would appear 

 to have been so satisfactory that many indents were subsequently made by the 

 cultivators for a supply of improved seed. Demonstration farms have since 

 been organised where local men, specially trained at the Government farm, would 

 continue to exemplify the advantages of the improvements recommended. 



Panjab and North- West Frontier. The area in 1905-6 was returned 

 as 694,181 acres in the Panjab, and 32,593 acres in the North- West Frontier. 

 The largest areas in the Panjab occurred in Dera Ghazi Khan, 83,754 

 acres ; Ferozpur, 77,701 acres ; Multan, 60,429 acres ; Gujrat, 52,413 acres ; 

 Jhang, 48,910 acres ; Shahpur, 38,223 acres ; Hissar, 35,014 acres ; 

 Karnal, 34,501 acres ; Delhi, 28,030 acres ; Gurgaon, 24,335 acres ; 

 Rohtak, 11,719 acres, etc. In the Season and Crop Report for 1906-7 the 

 area of the Panjab is stated to have been 1,557,813 acres, of which 1,172,362 

 were unirrigated. In certain crop experiments performed in the Panjab 

 in 1892, the yield ranged from 276 to 800 Ib. per acre. The areas manifest 

 extreme fluctuations, the unirrigated judr being chiefly grown in Dera 

 Ghazi Khan, Gujrat, Rawalpindi. 



There are said to be many races of the grain, and in most districts it 

 would appear as if special fodder (chari) forms had only recently been 

 systematically cultivated. The Gazetteers afford useful particulars, but it 

 would seem that since the date of Baden-Powell's Panjab Products (1868, 

 236) no publication has discussed the judr cultivation of the province as a 

 whole. 



Bengal and Assam. Although grown by the hill tribes to a limited 

 extent, judr cannot be regarded as an important crop in these provinces, 



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