114 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [March. 1910. 



method of comparison, and, assuming that the lands of the 

 Central Provinces, Bombay, and the Punjab, which grow rice, 

 produce the same return in the same year as the average rice- 

 growing lands of Bengal, Madras, and Lower Burma, increase 

 the figure for output proportionately to the increased area. 



We are now in a position to collate the following figures : — 



I. Area under rice, Bengal, Lower Burma, and Madras, 



millions of acres, « Area and Yield,' 1891-92 to 1905- 

 06, p. 36. 

 II. Output, millions of cwt. Do. 



III. Area under rice, whole of Br. India. ' Agric. Stat.' 



1895-96 to 1899-00, p. 2 ; 1901-02 to 1905-06, p. 8. 



IV. Proportional output : =-=•' — =- of Col. II. 



Col. 1 



V. Export. * Stat, of Br. India,' Part II, 1908, p. 18. mil- 

 lions of cwt. 

 VI. Balance for Indian consumption ; Col. IV minus 



Col. V. 

 VII. Total area under all food grains (Br. India). Ref. 



Col. III. 



The grains are wheat, barley, jawar, bajra, ragi, maize, 

 gram, and other grains and pulses, the figure for rice being 

 purposely omitted. 



Year. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. 



'91-92 49-5 315 635 404 32*7 371 109 



'92-93 48-4 420 657 570 04 570 114 



'93-94 495 459 684 634 24 610 113 



'94-95 50 498 693 690 33*7 656 112 



'95-96 49-4 415 692 581 34'6 546 103 



'96-97 48 276 66-3 381 27'8 353 94 



'97-98 522 498 70'8 675 264 649 112 



'98-99 527 506 748 718 37-4 681 107 



'99-00 52 452 728 633 319 601 92 



'00-01 489 414 69 583 31 552 113 



'01-02 485 384 70 554 337 520 107 



'02-03 51-8 469 71-6 648 47 601 112 



'03-04 49-5 439 696 617 444 573 117 



'04-05 51-6 448 73-5 638 489 589 112 



'05-06 54-4 433 73 4 584 422 542 110 



('06-07 54-5 430) 



We may notice incidentally that the export figures are 

 much smaller than is often represented in discussions about 

 crops and prices. In fact, if we except the extraordinarily bad 

 years 1891-92 and 1896-97, the export has only since 1902-03 at- 

 tained the percentage of 10% of the output of Bengal rice, and 

 has never exceeded 10% of the output of the whole of India. 



