Reports on Foreign Crops. 



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preclude the successful cultivation of wheat. But wheat in 

 India is most largely grown in the Panjab and the North- 

 western Provinces, the area sown there in the present 

 season being two-thirds of the whole ; and the larger harvest 

 from these tracts has so far compensated for the scanty 

 returns elsewhere that the yield for India generally is esti- 

 mated at about 6,583,000 tons, which is about 8-|- per cent, 

 more than the decennial average. 



Following the disastrously bad crop of 1900 and the 

 swift rise of prices which accompanied the failure, the expor- 

 tation of wheat from India to other countries practically 

 ceased, and indeed the quantity of wheat imported into 

 India exceeded the quantity exported eleven-fold. 



The estimated area and production in the various pro- 

 vinces are shown in the following table : — 





Area. 



Production. 



Province. 





















(1900-01) 



(1899- 1900) 



(1900-01) 



(1899- 1900) 





Acres. 



Acres. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Panjab - 



North- Western Provinces 



and Oudh 

 Bengal - - - 

 Central Provinces 

 Bombay - 



Sind - - - 

 Berar - 



Nizam's Territory - 

 Rajputana 

 Central India - 

 Mysore - - - 



8,766,400 



5,294,850 

 1,604,100 

 2,018,290 

 1,212,598 

 473,251 

 243,554 

 748,163 

 713,290 

 864,782 

 2,556 



6,366,500 



4,794,451 

 1,550,300 

 1,633,070 

 1,157,077 

 364,522 

 17,910 



419,633 

 360,733 

 515,600 



2,758 



2,940,602 



1,987,000 

 507,000 

 432,440 

 268^51 

 116,409 

 5>o93 

 14.833 

 170,682 

 139,910 

 197 



1,823,182 



1,950,814 

 572,700 

 201,803 

 99,408 

 68,226 

 251 

 i,979 

 79,289 

 71,821 

 254 



Total 



21,941,834 



17,182,554 



6,582,617 



4,869,727 j 



Crops in Italy. 

 The official reports published by the Ministry of Agricul- 

 ture in the Rivista Meteor ico Agrarta up to the end of August 

 stated that the results of the wheat harvest in Italy had 

 shown the crop to be abundant, and of good quality. For 

 maize and buckwheat the prospects in August were also on 



