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Per every maund hulled the farmer can get :
about 22 seers of rice;
95 10 ,, of broken rice-grains called * Kanki*;
and „ 8 ,, of chaff, which, when pulverised, is used as a
food for a cow or a she-buffalo
in milk.
Valuing these at the prices of 1926-27, we get the
following:
Rs, 1 9 6 for rice;
„ 0 10 0 for Kanki;
,,010 for chaff or 'Kunski/
Total Rs. 2 4 6
or about Rs. 2 5 0.
This shows that for every maund of rice the farmer
may sell instead of paddy, he is likely to realise 13 annas
more. Assuming that 3 annas are deducted by way of re-
muneration to the middleman, whose services are neces-
sary as the farmer cannot stay in the bazar to sell the
quantity of rice at retail prices, he will at least get 10
annas more per maund, or about Rs. 13 per hara. If the
farmer does not sell Kanki and chaff along with the rice>
he will realise about Rs. 1-8-4 Per maund or roughly at
least as much as he receives for paddy. In that case the
Kanki and the chaff will constitute his net savings.
(b) If he gets paddy hulled in a mill in Bulsar he will be
charged Rs. 3 per hara. Even in that case the farmer is
not a loser as he will realise Rs. 10 more.
Why do farmers not sell rice instead of paddy ? The
big farmers do not follow this method of sale because they
are afraid that the labour charges will be very high if all
the paddy is hulled at home. If hulled in a mill, they
argue that considerable time would be lost which would
mean a deduction from their time for supervising the
farms. The small cultivators do not follow this system,
because they are ignorant of the potential gain.
Co-operative marketing : We believe that the situa-
tion would be much improved if a Co-operative Paddy
Sale Society were started for this village, or a group of - H