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nor in fact in any rice-producing country. The arc* under it is in BOOM! 

 usually about 150,000 acre*. In 1906-7, according to the Season W 

 Crop Report, the area wai 143,700 acres, chiefly in the HhafaJpur and 



Patiui hi. ions. Eastern Bengal usually has about 3,000 arres, and 

 Assam a purely nominal acreage devoted 'to the crop, la the Annual 

 it of the Bardwan Experimental Farm (1901-2) particular* are given 

 perinii -nts with black-seeded and also ml -seeded forma a* bxidar crops. 

 Further experiments with other forms are alluded 

 Agriculture in his Annual Report (1902-3). 



Burma. The crop is important in Upper Burma, where in 1906-6 

 it occupied 856,437 acres, but in Low-r I'. 



unimportant. The chief districts of Upper Burma are Pakokkft, 909,345 

 acres ; Myingyan, 190,635 acres ; Lower C'liimlwin, 133,977 acre* ; Magwe, 

 93,851 acres ; Meiktila, 92,130 acres ; Sagaing, 90,594 acre*, eUs. Results 

 of crop experiments have shown the yield to varv from 328 to 876 Ib. 

 an acre. 



Recent Settlement Report* have furnished some useful particulars regarding 

 this crop. Speaking of Myingyan, we read thut " the seed was saki to have 

 been introduced " after the famine of 1866-7. Blanford reported having Men 

 it in Pagan in 1862. There are two forms recognised- (1) tonpyaung, grown 

 for human food : it has a round white seed with yellow husk ; and (2) ktm -pyaumy, 

 grown for fodder, but not exclusively so : it has both red and brown grains. Both 

 crops are sown in July and August and gathered in December and January. The 

 stalks, which often run up to 18 feet in height, are given to cattle after being 

 chopped up and mixed with water. 



Speaking of the Meiktila district, we read in the Settlement Report that ;'ud> is 

 one of the chief upland crops. It is in greater request as an article of food in the 

 western than in the eastern portions of the district, owing primarily to the fact 

 that the scope of the cultivation of paddy is somewhat limited in the former. 

 There are three kinds: (1) kun-pyaung, has a reddish-brown seed, is not 

 deprived of its husk on being threshed, and gives the highest return ; (2) ttm- 

 pyaung, gives the lowest return in proportion to the seed sown, since in the 

 process of threshing and winnowing it is entirely cleared from the husk, so that 

 nothing but the little pearly yellowish seeds remain. It has a better appearance 

 than the kun-pyaung, and yields after being milled 11 as compared with 8 from 

 the kun-pyaung ; (3) pyaung-net-n this is not very extensively cultivated. It 

 has a jet black husk and forms (like kauk-hnyin rice) a glutinous maw when OtaMssss 

 cooked, and is used for cakes and other sweet confections. The judr i* sown in ' 

 August and September and reaped in January and February, being a six months' 

 crop. It grows well in paddy fields provided water is not allowed to stand in them. 

 and when scarcity of water prevails it often takes the place of paddy. The 

 ground is prepared by harrowing the surface at least ten times and the ssed is 

 then broadcasted. 



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Ripe and Green Stems. The judr crop is not alone of value as a Fodder. 

 food for man. Its stems constitute the chief cattle fodder (cAori) of a 

 large portion of India. The first signs of famine directly induced by thr 

 loss of the judr crop are the starvation and death of th. cattle. It thus 

 follows that in India it is the ripe stems and leaves (the straw, it might be 

 called) which become the Indian judr fodder. Here and there special 

 races of the plant are grown as a supply of green fodder. Molliaon, 

 speaking of the Bombay Presidency, mentions some six indigenoua 

 forms of fodder judr : (1) tundhia perhaps the beet fodder var. 

 (2) dudhia this is met with on the light-coloured soils of Kaira and 

 Baroda ; (3) nilva this is the best Deccan (Poona) fodder for the 

 monsoons ; (4) utdvli is another Deccan form with loose upright heads of 

 grain ; (5) hundi and (6) kdlbondi arc recommended for cultivation a* 



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