Monthly Survey of Business Conditions in India December 1948

Revised data from the reporting authorities and the progressive figures should not therefore be understood as necessarily representing the sum of the monthly figures shown in the table or the sum of the latest month's figures and of the progressive figures published in the preceding Survey. [...] The condition of the crop was reported to be generally satisfactory The first forecast of sugarcane; issued by the Ministry of Agriculture estimates the acreage under the crop to be 36;16 thousand acres as against 34 66 thousand acres rported in the corresponding forecast of the last year thus showing an increase of 150 thousand acres or 4.3A during the 1948-49 season