£4 Report on the District of Azimgurh. [Feb. 



Goggra is the general channel for these importations. Golahs, or grain 

 markets, are established all along the course of this stream, and the 

 supplies are thence poured in, as necessary, to all the manufacturing 

 towns in the district. 



7th. Sugar is the staple produce. It is cultivated throughout, and al- 

 ways yields a high rent, generally 12 or 15 rupees the acre ; but in some 

 parts of Pergunnah Mahol, where the finest Sugar land is situated, it 

 runs as high as 30 or 40 rupees the acre. An effort has been made to 

 ascertain the value of the Sugar annually produced in the district, 

 founded on a calculation of the quantity of land shown by the settle- 

 ment returns to be under Sugar cultivation, and the average produce 

 of the land. This estimate gives a total area of 1,02,735 beegahs 

 (acres 57,877)* the produce of which is 12,32,707 Ghazeepore maunds 

 (11,55,663 cwt.) of Goor, or inspissated juice. This may be valued at 

 33,89,946 rupees, and is calculated to yield 3,08, 177 maunds (2,88,916 

 cwt.) of Sugar of 1st quality, and 1,23,271 maunds (1,15,989 cwt.) of 

 Sugar of 2nd quality, and to give the manufacturers a net profit 

 of 4,12,957 rupees. For this estimate, I am indebted to the ingenuity 

 and research of my successor in the collectorship of the district, Mr. R. 

 Montgomery. As the calculation is curious, I have given it in detail 

 in the Appendix (A.) 



8th. The price 

 of Sugar has 

 varied consider- 

 ably during the 

 last few years. 

 When that ar- 

 ticle formed part 

 of the Com- 

 pany's invest- 

 ment, about 5 or 



6,00,000 were advanced to persons in the district for its supply, and 

 then prices were steady; but when this demand was suddenly stopped 

 in 1832-3, and the Company withdrew from the market, prices of 

 course fell, and some distress was consequently experienced till the 

 trade found new channels. Lately, the reduction in England of the 

 duties on East India Sugar, has occasioned much speculation, and a 

 great rise of prices. It is not likely they will continue long at the same 

 standard, but a much lower rate will handsomely remunerate the cul- 

 tivator, and lead to considerable extention of the cultivation. 



9th. The immediate effect of the demand for the home market has 

 been to draw down to Calcutta a great deal of the Sugar, which till 

 lately had found its way to Mirzapore, and thence to the markets of 



F. 



A.D. 



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Price of Goor in 1236 



1829..12Srs. 



for the rupee 



» 1237 



1830.. 12 



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„ 1238 



1831.. 14 



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„ 1239 



1832.. 17 



» i 



„ 1240 



1833.. 23 



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„ 1241 



1834.. 20 



>> 



„ 1242 



1835.. 16 



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„ 1243 



1836.. 16 



>> 



„ 1244 



1837.. 12 



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