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Edible Products. 



growth of those that are left. Five or 

 six days later the plot is levelled by 

 means* of the kopar, which flatten? all 

 the surviving plants in the mud. In 

 five or six days more weeding operations 

 are commenced ; two or three weedings 

 at intervals of about a fortnight are 

 generally necessary. 



Broadcasting is the easiest and cheap- 

 est of all the methods in vogue. It is 

 similar to biasi, but the seed is allowed 

 to grow as it is sown ; there is no 

 thinning out of the plants. Iu its 

 crudest form as practised in some of the 

 Native States in Obhattisgarh, the land 

 is ploughed at the beginning of the rains, 

 the seed sown broadcast and covered by 

 means of the kopar, and the crop is left 

 untouched till it is ready for harvesting. 

 As a broadcasted field ripens earlier 

 than a transplanted one, broadcasting is 

 generally practised in high-lying fields 

 which are less retentive of moisture, aud 

 where, for that reason, the earlier 

 maturing rices only can be grown. This 



method is an alternative to transplant- 

 ing in Bhandara and Balaghat. 



By the lehi or koorah method the seed 

 is steeped before sowing so as to hasten 

 germinatiou ; otherwise, the method is 

 the same as broadcasting. This method 

 is practised in the Nagpur Division and 

 parts of Chhattisgarh, aud to the 

 greatest extent in years in which the 

 sowing has been delayed by heavy and 

 continuous rain. In Jubbulpore and 

 Damoh under the name of Machhcnva, it 

 is the method commonly followed in the 

 best rice soils. On the Raipur Farm 

 these four methods are being tested in 

 series A aud B of the experimental pro- 

 gramme, A being irrigated and B unirri- 

 gated. Both series of plots are uniformly 

 manured with cattleduug at the rate of 

 20 lbs. of nitrogen per acre ; the soil of 

 the two series is matasi. Tire plots 'are 

 each one-tenth of an acre in area. The 

 paddy grown is Parewa, a medium 

 variety. The results obtained are given 

 in the statements following : — 



Unirrigated :— Outturn per Acre in lbs. 



Plot. 



I. Transplanted 

 II. Biasi 



III. Broadcastd 



IV. Lehi 



Unirrigated :— Outturn 

 per Acre in lbs. 



1907-08. 



Grain. 



1,080 

 710 

 750 

 270 



Straw. 



1,130 

 78U 

 890 

 280 



Value. 



Rs. 

 46 

 30 

 32 

 11 



® 



> S3 



g> .. . 



Rs. 



46 

 29 

 25 

 17 



. to 



!§ 



o J3 



Rs. 



10 



A. 



14 

 2 



6 14 

 10 7 





Plot. 



1904-05. 



1905-06. 



1906- 07. 



Grain. 



Straw. 



Value. 



Grain. 



Straw. 



Value. 



Grain. 



Straw. 



Value. 











Rs. 







Re. 







Rs. 



I. 



Transplanted... 



1,940 



1,440 



49 



1,630 



1,050 



48 



1,840 



1,340 



41 



II. 



Biasi 



1,450 



1,000 



36 



430 



340 



13 



1,600 



1,240 



39 



III. 



Broadcasted ... 



750 



640 



19 



740 



580 



22 



1,240 



690 



29 



IV. 



Lehi 



930 



1,010 



24 



470 



410 



14 



790 



570 



19 



CO O 

 O S3 , 



?! ®13 

 P-o o 



&c to 3 



C3 3 CD 



<J o 



Rs. A. 



37 2 



19 6 



18 10 



6 9 



Irrigated ;— Outturn per Acre in lbs. 



Plot. 



1904-05. 



1905-6. 



1906-7. 





Grain. 



Straw. 



Value. 



Grain. 



Straw. 



Value. 



Grain. 



Straw, 



Value, 



I. Transplanted... 

 II. Biasi 



III. Broadcasted .. 



IV. Lehi 



2,000 

 1,670 

 960 

 770 



1,560 

 1,070 

 700 

 1,270 



Rs. 



47 

 40 

 24 

 22 



1,940 

 1,610 

 1,190 

 1,120 



1,220 

 1,160 

 970 

 860 



Ks. 



54 

 49 

 36 

 34 



1,940 

 1,240 

 1,220 

 730 



1,430 

 1,150 

 1,410 

 690 



Rs, 

 47 

 30 

 31 



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