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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE IMPORTS OF THE VARIOUS KINDS 

 OP TOBACCO DURING THE FIVE YEARS 1879-83. 



India, An immense area is occupied in producing 

 tobacco in India. In Madras, Dindigul is the great tobacco 

 district, and cheroots are manufactured at Trichinopoli. 

 The islands in the delta of the Godavari also yield lunka 

 tobacco, the climate being suitable, and the plants being 

 raised on rather poor, light soil, highly manured and 

 well watered. Manilla seeds have been tried on the lower 

 Palnai Hills, but the Wynaad has proved to be the best 

 locality. In Bombay, the Kaira and Khandesh tobaccos are 

 superior; altogether over 40,000 acres were under the 

 crop in this presidency in 1871-2, and the exports were 

 3 million Ib. Shiraz and Manilla seeds yield good plants 

 in Gnjrat and Khandesh. The total areas under tobacco 

 in 1871-2 were thus returned : Bengal, about 300,000 

 acres; Punjab, over 90,000; Oudh, 69,500; Eungpore, 

 60,000 (affording the so-called " Burma cheroots ") ; Cen- 

 tral Provinces, 55,000; Tirhoot, 40,000; Cooch Behar, 

 24,000 ; Mysore, 20,000 ; Dinagepore, 20,000 ; Purneah, 

 20,000; Behar, 18,500; Burma, 13,000; Monghyr, 

 9-10,000 ; Nuddea, 9-10,000. The best tobacco districts 

 are said to be Sandoway and the island of Cheduba, in 



