Technological Possiblities of Agricultural Development in India. A Note

They are : the abolition of the poverty of the cultivator and the abolition of the poverty of the soil. [...] Production of groundnut in the Punjab from 1933-34 to 1939-40 and in the United Provinces from 1933-34 to 1937-38 was taken from the Report on the Marketing of Groundnuts in India as these were available neither from Estimates of Area and Yield nor from the Season and Crop Reports of the respective provinces. [...] The fluctuations in production have been generally due to the amount and distribution of rainfall floods and attack of insects pests and diseases like 'blast' and Helmintliosporiton In 1917-18 the season was on the whole favourable especially for the winter crop except in parts of Bombay and Sind and a record crop was obtained. [...] In the Punjab area expanded due to the prsence of moisture in the s 1. In the United Provinces however the season was generally unfavourable for sowing rabi crops and the coarse crop of barley was therefore sown in place of wheat. [...] In Bombay the yield was considerably reduced due to poor rainfall during the period of growth dry winds and the attack of insect pests while in the Central Provinces heavy rains towards the end of October and in the second and third weeks of November caused a serious setback.