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but gul is to be manufactured in the future, the local 

 market will be glutted, and the industry will become 

 unprofitable. To obviate this it will be necessary to 

 manufacture sugar, for which there is a large demand 

 in India and all over the world. But if sugar is 

 to be manufactured it must be done by sugar com- 

 panies working with up-to-date methods and modern 

 machinery. It is very doubtful whether any large 

 sugar company could afford to depend for its supply 

 of cane on the scattered and slowly developing culti- 

 vation of cane on a new canal where crops of poor 

 quality are produced by cultivators deficient in 

 technical skill, capital and the most elementary 

 knowledge of business methods. For successful work- 

 ing, at any rate on a new canal, a sugar company 

 must have an estate of its own on which it can grow 

 a large part of the cane required, so that it may secure 

 the raw material of the quantity and quality desired 

 and that too at the time when it is needed. This, 

 then, is the problem : to provide prospective sugar 

 companies with the essential land on the perennial 

 sections of the new canals ; and it is to meet this re- 

 quirement that the proposals referred to above have 

 been formulated. 



It is suggested that Government should take up a 

 large area of land under each canal, selected as most 

 suitable for perennial irrigation, level the whole area 

 and provide it with the requisite drains and roads. 

 They will then return to each land-holder in this area 



