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Royal Commission on Agriculture in India Vol II Part I Evidence Taken in the Bombay Presidency

1927

May It Please Your Majesty We the Commissioners appointed to examine and report on the present conditions of agricultural and rural economy in British India and to make recommendations for the improvement of agriculture and to promote the welfare and prosperity of the rural population ; in particular to -- investigate :(a) the measures now being t.a ken for the promotion of agricultural and v [...] It will not be within the scope of the Commission's duties to make recommendations regarding the existing system of landownership and tenancy or of the assessment of land revenue and irrigation charges or the existing division of functions between the Government of India and the local Governments. [...] Indi; or to indicate directions in which the Government of India may usgfully supplement the activities of the local Governments ? (b) Is it your opinion that the expert scientific knowledge required in the development of agriculture in the different Provinces could be supplied to a greater extent than is the case at present by increasing the scientific staff of the Government of India ? If so in [...] (b) Are you satisfied with the existing system of marketing and distribtion ? If not please indicate the produce to which you refer and describe and criticise in detail the channels of marketing and distribution from the producer to the consumer in India (or exporter in the case of produce exported overseas). [...] But it must never be forgotten that the essmitial difference between agrcultural departments in the East and in the West is that the latter have arisen to meet the spontaneous demands of the cultivators of the soil while the former have been created by a Crovernment anxious to give all the help it can to its agricultural citizens.
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Pages
741
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.140908
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Frontmatter
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Minutes of Evidence Taken Before The Royal Commission on Agriculture
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Appendix
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Index
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Glossary
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