Monthly Survey of Business Conditions in India September 1950

Similarly the market for castorseed s at Bombay ruled cpiet during the first half of the month but there was a slight rise in the prices during the latter half of the month largely in sympathy with linseeds and groundruts. [...] The production situation in 1950-51 appears to he dominated by two important factors viz the curtailment of the area planted to cotton in the United States and the upsurge in the cotton prices in U.S. [...] According to reports received from Bombay for August 1950 the aggregate stocks of cloth at the and of the !tenth recorded a further appreciable decrease as compared with the stocks at the and of July. [...] As regards the price cf wheat at Jabbalpore although the high levels (bring the first half of the month were not maintained during the latter half of the month the price level on the whole was higher during the month under report than in the previous month.