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.

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