Abstract

Annual report of the Department of Agriculture, Bombay, for 1920-21. The report for the year 1920-21 which has just been received, teems as usual with interesting details of the work of the department. There would appear to have been uniform progress i all branches of work. Two important lines of activity deserve special mention and are certainly worthy of emulation. One is a scheme of fodder storage to serve as a reserve against years of fodder scarcity. Two different plans were adopted. One was to buy grass when cheap, store in Dutch barns and keep it till it was saleable at a remunera- tive rate, though it was not to be kept for more than three years. An account of the financial side of the scheme as carried out in Upper Gujarat is promised during the coming year. The second system refers to the storage of shredded "kadbi" in a baled condition. This was started at Kopargaon, Ahmadnagar District after the famine year of 1912, as a result of which large quantities of straw (kadbi) have been made available in recent years of famine. In 1920-21 famine, 3,50,000o lbs. of straw was supplied in Ahmadnagar District.

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