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KEPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 



[Sept. 18%. 



Crops in India. 



The final general Memorandum on the wheat crop of the 

 season IS 95-9 6, which was issued at Simla on the 9th June 

 last, stated that the situation remained substantially unaltered 

 from that described in the second Memorandum on the wheat crop 

 issued three months before. As a consequence of the premature 

 cessation of the autumn monsoon of 1895, the area placed under 

 wheat was, in most of the wheat-growing regions, seriously 

 restricted ; and as a consequence of the almost complete failure 

 of the winter rains of 1895-96 the yield on this restricted area 

 was also in every case much below the average. In the North- 

 western Provinces and Oudh the poor harvest followed on an 

 even poorer harvest in the preceding year, and the same remark 

 applies to the Nizam's territory ; in the Central Provinces also 

 the poor harvest followed a deficient harvest last year. In all 

 other places the yield was greatly below that of the preceding 

 year as well as below the average yield. In the Panjab, where 

 the harvest represents from 35 to 40 per cent, of the whole of 

 the Indian wheat harvest, the deficient outturn of this season 

 followed on two successive harvests of remarkable abundance. 



The total area and yield of the season compare as follows 

 with those of the preceding year and the average : — 



Years. 



Area in Acres. 



Yield in Tons. 



Season of 1894-95 - 

 „ „ 1895-96 - 



27,207,288 

 22,731,504 



6,827,277 

 5,499,927 



The following table gives the acreage and yield of each 

 province during the last two seasons. The figures for Central 

 India include the supplementary estimates for the Bhopal Agency, 

 Indore and Bundelkhand, which were not incorporated in the 

 final general memorandum : — 



Province. 



1895-96. 



1894-95. 



1895-96. 



1894-95. 





Acres. 



Acres. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Panjab - 



N. W. Provinces and Oudh 



6,893,400 



8,051,800 



1,715,873 



2,395,353 



3,696,576 



4,627,816 



1,236,486 



1,141,297 



Central Provinces 



2,573,170 



3,393,348 



431,689 



502,275 



Bombay - - 



2,206,134 



2,678,665 



439,584 



744,961 



Sind - 



319,900 



673,251 



71,949 



215,361 



Berar - 



747,025 



889,326 



48,129 



81,882 



Bengal - - - - 



1,427,400 



1,413,000 



345,800 



486,300 



Rajputana 



1,306,868 



1,529,146 



315,573 



368,168 



Central India - 



1,993,877 



2,418,957 



816,399 



817,342 



Hyderabad ... 



1,561,698 



1,527,445 



78,082 



74,034 



Mysore - - - - 



5,456 



4,534 



1 363 



304 



Total 



22,731,504 



27,207,288 



5,499,927 



6,827,277 



