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Ground rent or tax . . , . . $5 '00 



Clearing, ploughing, and planting . 40 '00 



Cost of plants 50*00 



Digging and preparing . . . 15*00 



Peeling 45 '00 



Drying 25 '00 



Delivery at market . . . .10*00 



Fertiliser 50*00 



Superintendence 20*00 



CHAP. 



$200*00 



Yield of one acre, 1,500 to 2,000 Ibs. at 12 cents per 

 lb., $180 to $300. The expenses here seem very high. 

 In Bengal (Murray's figures) : 



Rupees per Bigha 

 (1,600 sq. yds.). 



Cost of plants . . .16 

 Manure .... 7 

 Planting, etc. . . .23 



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In the Punjab a bigha requires 8 maunds of rhizome to 

 plant it, and yields 32 maunds in a good year. Selected 

 rhizomes for planting cost 8 to 10 seers for a rupee, and 

 the ordinary crop 24 to 32 seers per rupee (Baden-Powell, 

 in Watt's Dictionary}. 



A correspondent in the Indian Planters' Gazette, 

 quoted in the Tropical Agriculturist, April 1903, p. 660, 

 gives as an estimate for one bigha : 



R. A. P. 



10 ploughs at 4 annas 320 



Manuring 800 



20 coolies for preparing land at 5 for the rupee .400 

 10 for planting at same price . . . .200 



Weeding, etc 800 



Digging and sorting, 16 coolies . . . .300 



Irrigating . . . . . ..600 



Rent for one year 230 



36 5 



Returns, 10 maunds green ginger at 6 rupees per 



maund 60 



Profit for 1 bigha 23 11 



