. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. XII. Xo. 279. THE AGRICULTURAL SUGAR INDUSTRY. SUGAR AND RICE IN INDIA. The following facts are taken from a recent consular trade report, anil appear in the Modern Sugar Planter for November 16. Sugar comes second in importance in the imports into India, and represented nearly (iO per cent, of the total value of the imports of food and drink The arrivals of ca\w sugar during the year ended March 1912, amounting to 9,887,69-1 cwt. of 112 K). each, compared with 11,814,187 cwt., for the preceding year. J
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. XII. Xo. 279. THE AGRICULTURAL SUGAR INDUSTRY. SUGAR AND RICE IN INDIA. The following facts are taken from a recent consular trade report, anil appear in the Modern Sugar Planter for November 16. Sugar comes second in importance in the imports into India, and represented nearly (iO per cent, of the total value of the imports of food and drink The arrivals of ca\w sugar during the year ended March 1912, amounting to 9,887,69-1 cwt. of 112 K). each, compared with 11,814,187 cwt., for the preceding year. Java supplied 8,160,468 cwt., Mauritius 1,709,773 cwt., and China 12,656 cwt. The imports of beet sugar amounted to ,1.'58 cwt., against 724,9-58 cwt. for the fiscal year ended March 1911. furnishes the greater part of the beet sugar .supplies, the receipts from that country for the year ended March 1912, amounting to 241,433 cwt, compared with 714,097 cwt. for the preceding year. The Indian sug^r cro|> gathered at the beginning of 1911 was satisfactory in most; places and was estimated at 2,217,800 tons of raw sugar compared witli an average if 2,034,400 tons for the preceding five years The good prices in 1911 stimulated planting, with the result that the crop gathered at the beginning of the present yenr is believed to have exceeded the previous yeai's liy 10 per cent, in the area p^'lanted, and the total yield, exclusive of palm sugar, is estimated at about 2,390,400 tons. The foregoing figures comprise only those tracts that make returns of cane cultiva- tion. It is believed that India produces about 3,000,000 tons of cane sugar. Rice is the staple food of most of India, and about per cent, of the cultivated acreage in liritish India is under this product. Burma furnishes about three-fourths of the Indian shipments. The rice is principally exported from January until April. This product arrives on the western markets simultaneously with
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