MISSION INDUSTRIES 39 



According to the official report prepared for presenta- 

 tion in Parliament — ''India in 1919" — India has eighty 

 million acres in rice, and grows the largest amount of 

 rice of any country in the world. 



India in the season of 1919-1920 had about thirty mil- 

 lion acres sown to wheat and grew over ten million tons 

 of that staple. Three million tons more than the year 

 before. 



India had the largest acreage under sugar cane, about 

 half the world's area under sugar cane is in India, and 

 until 1918 grew more cane sugar than any other country 

 on earth. The yield of sugar for 1918 was estimated 

 at three million seven hundred thousand tons. 



India grows and exports more tea than any other 

 country in the world. Three hundred and eighty 

 pounds in 1918. 



India leads the world in the production of oil seeds; 

 castor, linseed, mustard, sesamum, cocoa-nut and peanut 

 oils. 



India leads the world in the production of sorghums 

 and millets; pigeon pea and other edible legumes. 

 India grows about eighty million tons of food grains 

 a year. 



India has a world monopoly in the growing of jute, 

 from which all our gunny bags and sacks are made. 



India leads the world in the production of shellac 

 for varnish. 



In 1919 India grew six million eight hundred thousand 

 bales of cotton on over twenty million acres, each bale 

 weighing four hundred pounds. 



India has several million acres under ''Sanai" which 

 yields a fiber like hemp. 



