Agricultural Marketing in India. Report on the Marketing of Wheat in India

It might be assumed that owing to the regularity of the water supply in irrigated areas and the dependence of unirrigated land on the vagaries of the monsoon there would be a much greater degree of stability in the average yield per acre from one year to another on the irrigated land but the figures available in the Punjab which is the only province maintaining full details for the two types of [...] In the south the growing period is shorter than in the rortlL In the Carnatic in the south of the Bombay Presidency andin the Deccan generally harvesting may begin at the end of. [...] In the west of the United Provinces where the great bulk of the local crop is grown in Delhi and in the eastern tracts of the Punjab harvesting is normally at its height towards the end of April but may commence towards the end of March and last until the middle of May.