PEA. 

 (Rain.) 



Ploughings. 



White, " kapilia" (kabilia vulgo), sown alone. Black sown mixed with 

 Varieties. barley, and not referred to below. 



Manure. None. 



The white pea is generally sown after indigo has been cut, or in tardi 

 when the water has cleared off. There is no time there- 

 fore to give more than two or three ploughings, but 

 where sown separately it gets the usual number of rabi ploughings, as in one 

 experiment it had. 



Sowing. It is sown broadcast and harrowed in. 



It is sometimes weeded once (in an experiment it took twenty men to weed 

 intermediate opera- the acre in the day) and watered once ; but is more often 

 tlon8 ' grown unirrigated. 



It is harvested just as other rabi crops, but takes less time to thresh, 

 Harvest. the seeds coming out of the pods easily. 



My experiments do not give above four maunds the acre ; but this seems 

 Outturn. to me a light crop. 



Useg> The pea is often eaten raw 3 or the pod is parched and 



eaten ; it is usually given a browning in ghee and called " nimona" or eaten as ddl. 

 Price. This pea used to sell at 40 seers the rupee. 



Cost of production. 



