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A cultivator can sometimes lease land contiguous to his 

 own holding, and in this way some temporary unification of 

 the land is effected, though it does not go very far. The 

 following gives a typical case of the area actually cultivated 

 by one of the most substantial cultivators in the village, 

 viz. : — 



Ganpu Bira cultivated 12 acres of rice land, of which he 

 owns 3 acres and hires 9 acres: the 12 acres which he culti- 

 vates is divided into 21 different plots. 



Physical Condition of the Land. 



The whole of the land is rice land except that on the edge 

 of the river a few fields contain a certain number of cocoanut 

 trees which are badly looked after and not irrigated. There 

 is a tank in the jungle close by which, it is stated, formerly 

 provided sufficient irrigation water to grow a second crop of 

 waingan rice (i.e. hot weather rice) or sugar-cane on practi- 

 cally the whole area, to which it was conducted by a channel 

 round the upper contour of the field. The tank is now much 

 silted up and the channel out of order. Rice is grown in the 

 monsoon, and afterwards there is enough water for about 



