Madras Agricultural Journal
Loading.. Please wait
Research Article | Open Access | Peer Review

A Plea for a Protective Duty on Rice.

Volume : 27
Issue: May-may
Pages: 161 - 165
Published: November 15, 2023
Download

Abstract


Rice is a crop of an all-India importance. Its cultivation is wide and important in the Provinces of Bengal, Madras, Bihar, and Assam. With its 72 million acres, India has the largest area under rice among the countries of the world. Her outturn of rice is a little over half of what is produced in the world and four-seventh of the production of Asia, the most important rice producing continent in the world. Out of the world production of 830,000 quintals of rice in 1935-6, Asia alone produced 772,000 quintals of which 442,880 quintals formed the share of India and Burma together. Burma alone produced only a sixth of this amount. These figures clearly show the importance of India in the production of rice as well as the relatively minor contribution of Burma to the world output.

DOI
Pages
161 - 165
Creative Commons
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

Keywords


footer

Copyright © Madras Agricultural Journal | Masu Journal All rights reserved.