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Review of Agricultural Operations in India 1922-23

1923

A knowledge of the relations between soils and plants under the varying conditions of the country is essetial for a proper understanding of the agric-ultural situation and the development of this side of agricultural work in India is of first rate importance. [...] Further work on the transpiration of the rice plant indicates that the early races live faster and that this quality is reflected in the ratio of the surface of leaf to root which is markedly greater in the early races than in the later ones. [...] It may therefore be stated that a failure of the wheat crop on the irrigated parts of the Peshawar District was averted by the extended growing of Pusa 4. A thorough test of the cropping power of the Pusa and other wheats in different parts of the province has not yet been made in BIHAR AND ORISSA but the area under improved wheats is increasing in the Patna Circle Where the outturn and market ra [...] Sugar factories have now started in the Deccan and these coupled with the drop in the price of gur will soon expose the fallacy of over-manuring and over-irrigating which has been such a feature in the past cultivation of Pounda in the Deccan and enable the Manjri improvements to be pushed ahead rapidly. [...] An interesting feature of the year has been the increase in the cutivation of cold weather cotton in the south of the province in the Chanda and adjoining districts.
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Chapter I. Agricultural Conditions of the Year
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Chapter II. Economic Work on Crops
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Chapter III. Research and Investigation
50-66 unknown view
Chapter IV. Agricultural Engineering
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Chapter V. District Work
71-76 unknown view
Chapter VI. Agricultural Education
77-84 unknown view
Chapter VII. The Co-Operative Movement as Affecting Agriculture
85-92 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Live Stock
93-103 unknown view
Chapter IX. Publications of the Agricultural Departments
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Chapter X. Expenditure of the Agricultural Departments
106-108 unknown view
Appendises
109-155 unknown view

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