Abstract

Of all the places growing pan in Chhattisgarh division of C. P. & Berar, Chhuikhadan, a State of the ES A., is of the first importance not only for the largest area under pan at one place, but also in having the best types of pan barejas. The pan barhies of this place are found to be the healthiest and the heaviest yielders The yearly export of pan from this place is to the value of about twenty-five to thirty thousand rupees. The business of pan has thus attained a paramount importance in this State. Like all other places here too, the cultivation has been specialised by one community called the baral. This article is mostly an out-come of the author coming in contact with the growers and also visiting the barajas from time to time when different operations were in progress.

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