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Reports on Foreign Crops. 



consecutive bad se^lsons. These good conditions, however, 

 did not extend to the Pan jab. In that province the season 

 was pronouncedly adverse ; insufficient rain, which injured the 

 crop, being followed by unusually hard frosts, then by rust 

 and insects, and finally storms and high winds when the 

 grain was on the threshing floors. The outcome was a yield 

 much smaller than w^ould have been taken from the area 

 sown in a good season, the crop on land not protected by 

 irrigation sustaining great injury. In the adjacent province 

 of Sind also the deficiency in the inundation resulting from 

 the absence of rain led to similar results. 



In Central and Western India the conditions were 

 generally not favourable to the reaping of a fine wheat 

 harvest. Over most of this region the rain, after allowing 

 sowings to be made, held off thereafter, or the monsoon 

 ended too soon, and the drought interfered seriously 

 with the progress of growth. From a great many places too 

 reports had been received of injury caused by rust and rats, 

 as. well as by frost. In Bombay rain in September and good 

 rain in the winter restored the position and the yield was 

 good, but in the Central Provinces and Berar the harvest was 

 very poor. 



The final estimates of the yield of the wheat crop in 

 various provinces are as folio w t s : — 





Area. 



Yield. 



Province. 





















1898-9 



1897-8 



1S98-9 



1897-8 



Pan jab - 



North-Western Provinces 



and Oudh - 

 Bengal - 



Central Provinces - 

 Bombay - 

 Sind - 

 Berar - 



Nizanvs Territory - 

 Rajputana 

 Central India 

 Mysore - 



Acres. 

 7,729,200 



4,840,776 

 1,594,600 

 2,521,472 

 2,138,836 

 352,138 

 436,362 

 1,196,520 

 1,109,214 

 1,277,480 

 4,029 



Acres. 

 8,013,800 



4,537,351 

 1,569,500 

 2,171,714 

 2,004,832 

 591,621 

 390,378 

 1,091,595 

 i,'83,233 

 1,212,832 



4,363 



Tons. 

 1,977,777 



1,808,516 

 666,800 

 458,642 

 656,136 



77,543 

 21,892 

 37,225 

 262,451 

 241,620 

 492 



Tons. 

 2,358,975 



1,773,488 

 592,600 



543,095 

 627,914 

 177,160 



25,5n 

 33,i7o 

 282,955 

 240,102 

 33i 



Total - 



23,200,627 



22, 77 1,'? 19 



6,209,094 



6,655,301 



