. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. es,of which 330,000 are in Assam, the rest being inBengal, Panjab, United Provinces, Madras,Burma, and native states. With the exceptionof a few hundred acres in Burma, Assam, etc.,the whole of the coffee-growing area, amountingto about 280,000 acres, is in Southern India, inMysore, Kurg, Madras, Travancore, and chief cinchona plantations are the govern-ment ones at Darjiling and in the Nilgiris. Thetree was introduced by the Indi
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. es,of which 330,000 are in Assam, the rest being inBengal, Panjab, United Provinces, Madras,Burma, and native states. With the exceptionof a few hundred acres in Burma, Assam, etc.,the whole of the coffee-growing area, amountingto about 280,000 acres, is in Southern India, inMysore, Kurg, Madras, Travancore, and chief cinchona plantations are the govern-ment ones at Darjiling and in the Nilgiris. Thetree was introduced by the Indian is one of the most valuable vegetableproductions of India. The total area under thecotton-plant is 14,000,000 acres, distributed thus:Bombay and Sind (3,900,000), Berar(2,500,000), Hyderabad (1,700,000), Madras(1,400,000^ United Provinces of Agra andOudh (1,250,000), Panjab (1,200,000), CentralProvinces (1,000,000), and smaller areas in Cen-tral India, Rajputana, Burma, and Bengal. Nextin importance to cotton among Indian fibrescomes jute, which is cultivated in eastern Bengalalong the valleys of the Ganges and the Brah- YOUNG BRAHMIN AND WIFE. INDIA maputra, occupying fully two million acres. Thecultivation of the mulberry, for the rearing oftlu- silk-wonn, is chiefly carried on in northern Bengal, with Murshidabad as acentre. The indigo industry is one of the oldestin India, but it is at present in a languishingcondition. The area under the plant is about904,000 acres, chiefly in Bengal (360,000), UnitedProvinces of Agra and Ouclh, Madras, and Imjab. The opium poppy is cultivated in certainparts of western Helical and the United Prov-ince; of Asia and Oudh, in the Panjab, andin the native states of Kajputana and CentralIndia, occupying in all about 600,000 acres. (Seebelow under Finance.) Tobacco is grown inevery district for local consumption. Amongthe numerous minor cultivated vegetable prod-ucts of India are turmeric, chillies, ging
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