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MAIZE 



CHAP. 

 III. 



Table XI. 



ACREAGE AND YIELDS OF MAIZE IN THE INDIAN 

 PROVINCES. 



1 Where the yield per acre varies between the irrigated and dry crops, and 

 the crops fully irrigated and partly dry, the mean of these figures has been taken 

 in calculating the yield. Where no yield per acre is given, the estimate has 

 been made on the basis of the yield of the dry-land crop in the Panjab, which is 

 probably a little on the low side. 



that maize was "cultivated in different parts of India in 

 gardens, and only as an ornament, but nowhere on the con- 

 tinent of India as an object of cultivation on a large scale " 

 {Roxburgh, 1). In course of time native prejudice gave way 

 before the unanswerable demands of hunger and a rapidly 

 increasing population ; Church (1) observes that in 1886 there 

 were already in India 2,250,000 acres under maize. In 

 another twelve years the area under crop had increased to 



