water all the night and dried all the day. This process is 

 repeated for 3 days and nights. If the seeds have all germi- 

 nated by this time they are immediately sown. Otherwise 

 they are filled into a bag and covered with blankets. After 

 a day or two the seeds are taken out and broadcasted in the 

 nursery at the rate of 4 maunds per acre. The seedlings from 

 an acre are sufficient for 8 or 10 acres. After the seedlings 

 are 2 inches high, the nursery is watered once a week. 

 They are transplanted when 8 or 9 inches high. After 

 transplantation the field is kept irrigated when necessary till 

 harvest time. The rabi boro is grown in lowlying fields 

 where there is water in October or November. No ploughing 

 is needed in such lands which are usually soft, and seedlings 

 are simply transplanted when 10 inches or 12 inches high 

 into the soft mud. One or two ploughings are given when 

 the land is not quite soft. All that is needed afterwards to 

 the time of harvesting, is pulling out of weeds and burying 

 them in the soft mud. 



280. The outturn of boro paddy is 20 to 25 mnds. per 

 acre. The winter variety gives a better outturn. 1 



281. In most districts boro is broadcasted only in Novem- 

 ber and December or even January and February, and har- 

 vested in April and May or in June. Boro is sometimes 

 transplanted, 2, 3 or 4 times, between December and February. 



282. Boran Aman or Long- steamed Aman. These are 

 coarse varieties of Aman which habitually grow in water 

 5 to 15 ft. deep. They are sown broadcast in bil or low- 

 lying lands. As the water rises the plant also grows, growth 

 of as much as 9" to 12 "in 24 hours at the beginning of 

 the rainy season having been observed. When submerged 

 through a sudden flooding for more than 3 days, the crop is 

 completely destroyed. This accounts for the failure of the 

 experiment in the growing of the long-stemmed paddy in the 

 Argoal Circuit of Midnapur. The sowing and harvesting take 

 place at the same time as the sowing and harvesting of 



