Foop GRAINS IN INDIA. Dalen 


1896-7, and 1899-1900; but good wheat harvests are not, it is 
stated, to be expected with the regularity with which a good 
rice harvest may be expected in Burma, as the wheat crop is 
grown in regions which too frequently are subject to 
meteorological vicissitudes, and deficiency or irregularity in 
the monsoon rains spells varying degrees of misfortune for 
the cultivator. 
The effect of the failure of the harvest upon the price of 
wheat may be judged by the following table, issued by the 
Statistical Department of India, which shows the number of 
kilograms (about 21 lbs.) of wheat which could be obtained 
for one rupee in the Panjab, North-West Provinces, Central 
Provinces, aud Bombay in certain months of the past seven 
years. 


N.-W. P. and 
Oudh. 
Central 
| Panjab. Provinces. 




| 
) 


March 1899 - - 
August 
September ,, - - - - - | 11°69 12 87 II‘1g 9°62 
October Pre - - - - 10°25 10°56 8°94 8°06 

November ,, - - - - - 10°37 L125 9°19 7 62 
Weeembers 5, -  - — - ai hall Ir'56 1194 Q°5 8 
January 1909 - - 
February , 
; - - - - 
March 
7) - = - = = 11°81 12°31 

April -F . - - - - 13 12°62 9°37 gs 


It will be seen from this that in 1894 and 1895, when the 
yield was considerably over 6 million tons, the weight of 
wheat which could be purchased in the Panjab for a rupee 
in March of those years was 524 lbs. (23°88 kilos.) and 473 lbs. 
(21°62 kilos.) respectively. In 1896, when the out-turn was 
not so promising and only amounted to 54 million tons, the 
Pi 2 
Bombay. 
| Kilos per rupee. 
March 1894 . - | 23°88 16°19 18°06 13°12 
March 1895 - - - : - | 21°62 15°19 14°56 14°56 
March 1896 - - - - =| 14°25 | 12°25 13°88 BPO) 
March~ 1897 - - - - cal 8°25 8°88 9 AS 
March 1898 - - - - =| 14°37 12°94 TL‘IQ 9°56 

