282 THE SURVEY QUESTION IN COCHIN CHINA. 



On the 31st December, 1884, the cultivable area, measured 

 by the topographical staff, amounted to about 730,000 hectares. 

 The cultivated land of the arrondissements or of the cantons 

 remaining still to be surveyed was approximately 70,000 

 hectares. 



We may, therefore, consider 800,000 hectares to be the 

 cultivable area which will be shewn in the returns of cultiva- 

 tion furnished by the topographical staff when the survey on 

 the scale of -2o<joo> now approaching completion, shall have 

 been finished. But some arrondissements and those not the 

 least important ones were surveyed before the remarkable 

 activity which has been shewn recently in jungle-clearing, and 

 it must be remembered that the returns do not shew the 

 present state of the cultivation of those sub-divisions, but on 

 an average that of the years 1 881- 1882. 



The Colony exported in 1881, ... 4,210,000") piculs of pad- 

 ,, ,, 1882, ... 6,160, 000 j dy and rice. 



Total,... 10,370,000 

 Average for two years,... 5,165,000 



Allowing ten piculs to each inhabitant, the local consumption 

 may have amounted in each one of these years to 16,300,000 



For seed (-^ of the harvest) there must have 

 been required, ... ... ... 900,000 



The average produce for the years 1881 and 

 1882 must therefore have been, ... ... 22,400,000 



The export rose in 1883 to, ... ... 8,630,000 



,, 1884,, .7T ... 8,445,000 



Total,... 17,075,000 



Average, ... 8,538,000 

 The local consumption, which must have 

 slightly increased may be put down for each 



of these years at, ... ... ... 16,600,000 



