SUGABCANE
1931-32 1940-41

Bombay

Delhi

U.P.

6071
3135
1493

5782
2531
1096

Decrease*

289
604
397

Country. Wheat.

Egypt Germany Japan U. S. A. China Italy India
1918 2017 1783 1813 968 1382 660
2998
3444' 2185 2433 4508 1240
1891 2828 1392 1'579 1284 2079 803

What the civilised Governments in other parts of
the world did for the land and what has been left
undone by foreign rule in India will appear from the
comparative statistics of crop yield per acre in India
and abroad.

(In Ibs, per acre)
Jiice. Maize. Sugarcane. Cotton. Tobacco*

70,302 535 ___

2828 113,570 (Java).. 2127

47,534 196 1665

43,270 268 882

___ 204 1288

___ 170 1139

34,944 89 987

Who is responsible for this criminal neglect
which has resulted in our food deficiency?

Most of the land in India is still left exposed to
the vagaries of the monsoon. Only 23 per cent of the
total area sown is irrigated. In the Indian States it is
still less, only 16 per cent, i.e., 11 million out of 68
million acres, Since the Irrigation Committee's Re-
port of 1901 the progress in Irrigation has been little.
The progress, or the lack of it, made during the last 45
years appears from the following figures:—

fear.

1902-08
1939-40

(British India)
Crop area Total irrigated cultivated. area.
(Millions of acres) 224.4 44.1 244.0 54.9
% of irrigated area to sown area.
19.5 22.5