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The Statistical Reporter. A Monthly Journal of Statistical Enquiries Concerning India. Calcutta Tuesday 15th November 1870

1870

The Madras Government declined in 1861 to accede to the Chamber’s proposal that Captain R. N. Taylor of the 17th Regiment N. I. should be employed to report on the means of improving the communications between the cotton-producing districts and the ports of shipment and upon the best means of improving the quality and increasing the quantity of the staple. [...] Rivett-Carnac's Report to the Bombay Chamber on the cotton trade in the Central Provinces and the Berars for the past year dated Camp Boolundshuhur N. Jr Provinces 25th June 1870:- As the cotton season has now closed I have the honour to submit for the information of your Chamber a brief report on the cotton trade in the Central Provinces and the Berars during the past year. [...] But the effect of the opening of the line and the extension of cotton agencies in the interior will doubtless be to stimulate the trade cud encourage the cultivation of cotton in the neighbouring districts. [...] increase of the out-tune—Whilst the most strenous efforts are being made to improve the gaality of our prduce—the length and strength of the staple of the indigenous cotton at the same time the hardly less important question of the increase of quantity—the out-turn to the acre has as will be seen from the above remarks received some attention ; for the measures adopted for the improvement of [...] The sons of some of the principal cultivators are employed on the farm and the various experiments are explained to them and to the villagers who occasionally visit the farm to learn the results of our operations and who express considerable astonishment at the excellent crops not only of cotton but of tobacco Carolina paddy and other produce raised at the seed gardens.
government politics public policy
Pages
32
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120115
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The Statistical Reporter. A Monthly Journal of Statistical Enquiries Concerning India. Calcutta Tuesday 15th November 1870
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