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Outturn of indigo varies : as much as 100 maunds plant per acre may 

 bs cut for the factory, but the cultivator cutting for his 

 own rough manufacture will perhaps cut as little as 50 

 maunds plant, leaving the stocks for seed, of which he will get five maunds. 

 If he grows for seed alone he may expect eight mauuds per acre. 



Coat of production. 



Outturn. 



The price of plant varies from year to year; of seed it may be said from 

 day to day, being a purely speculative crop: Rs. 20 

 per 100 maunds plant, the carriage falling on the manu- 

 facturer, is a common but low rate, and given in advance chiefly : Rs. 25 to 

 Rs. 27 is got when the ryot carries for himself, or when he sells at his own 

 option as harvest (khush kharid). In one instance so great was the competition 

 between two rival factories for plant that Rs. 32 and even Rs. 40 were given 

 for 100 maunds. 



Seed sold in the year of the highest speculation as high as Rs. 42 per 

 maund, but Rs. 6 per maund is about the average price that the cultivator gets. 

 The blue dye we call indigo is obtained from the leaves. The seed is 

 largely exported, Bengal manufacturers finding they ob- 

 tain the best plant with foreign seed. It is a pity this 

 principle doei not obtain more in the North- Western Provinces. 



