CHAPTEE IX. 



AN AGRICULTURAL POLICY FOR WESTERN INDIA. 



We have now considered in detail the conditions 

 under which agricultural progress takes place, and 

 analysed both the direct causes from which increased 

 production results, and the more remote causes through 

 the operation of which progress becomes possible. 

 When it is found in any country that much larger 

 crops are being produced than was formerly the case, 

 the immediate cause will probably be traced to the 

 increased use of manure, to better implements, or to 

 the adoption of more profitable lines of production ; 

 but the question will still remain to be answered as 

 to how the organisation of the farmers was improved, 

 how the requisite capital and intelligence were at- 

 tracted to the industry, how the productive energies 

 of the people were stimulated to the extent necessary 

 for such a change. Examples have been given of the 

 methods by which rapid progress was achieved in 

 other countries, and it has been shown that while 

 agricultural progress can be claimed in Western India, 

 the movement is restricted and the pace is slow. 

 Finally the probable causes of this comparative 



stagnation have been suggested. It now remains to 



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