LAND VALUES AND RENTALS 



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rapidly, not entirely to the well-being of the com- 

 munity at large. In recent times the value of agri- 

 cultural land has largely increased. This is a matter 

 of common knowledge, but a study of recent Revision 

 Settlement Reports issued by the Bombay Govern- 

 ment gives some interesting indications of the facts. 

 As might be expected the increase is most marked in 

 the cotton tracts. In the Talukas of Raver and 

 Yaval (East Khandesh), which are typical of con- 

 centrated cotton cultivation, the figures are as follows 

 for the average values and rents, per acre, for all 

 classes of land, good, bad and indifferent, viz. : — 



Showing that in twenty-five years land values 

 increased fourfold and rents doubled. In Dhulia 

 Taluka, another typical cotton tract, land values 

 increased threefold and rents doubled during the 

 twenty years prior to 1918. In Sampgaon Taluka 

 (Belgaum district), which grows cereals as its main 

 crop, land values increased threefold during the thirty 

 years prior to 1913. 



In the non-cotton tracts also the same movement 



