Abstract

                                I understand that you are interested not only in the dry parts of economics but also in the effect on the community at large, of malad- justments in the economic position. I have therefore chosen as the subject of my discourse what I consider to be a grave maladjustment in the agricultural economy of this Presidency. I refer to the large area under paddy, more particularly swamp paddy. The total area actually under crop, in the Presidency, is approximately thirty-nine million acres. The total area under paddy is approximately, eleven million acres, of which area approximately eight millions are swamp paddy. This does not mean that every third or fourth crop is a paddy crop and that other crops are given in rotation with it. If that were so, much of what I have to say would not need to be said. As you are aware, thete are wide stretches of country where paddy follows paddy monotonously every year and these stretches are getting wider and the area under swamp paddy is being added to yearly. This is the position.

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