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CHAPTER IV.
AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION.
Agricultural Statistics — The crops most grown — Indigo — Sugar-cane — Jnte — Others. Cultivation Methods — On the hills — The Agricultural Association. Irrigation — The protected area — Wells — Tanks — Channels — From the Varaha — From the Sarada — From the Nagavali — The Nagavali project. Economic Condition of Agriculturists.
More than nine-tenths of Vizagapatam consists of zamindari land, and of the remaining- tenth a fifth is whole inam. Conse- quently agricultural statistics are available for only about eight per cent, of the area of the district, namely for the ryotwari and minor inam land in the three Grovernment taluks of Golgonda, Palkonda and Sarvasiddhi. Figures for these are appended, but the three areas differ widely in their soils, rainfall and facilities for irrigation, and cannot be considered representative of the district as a whole : —
| Taluk. | Percentage of area by survey which is | Percentage of area in village accounts of | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ryotwari.
|
Minor inam.
|
Whole inam.
|
Zamindari.
|
Forest and other area
not available for cultivation. |
Cultivable waste other
than fallow. |
Current fallows.
|
Net area cropped.
|
Irrigated by all sources.
| |
| Golgonda | 70.7 | 2.2 | 7.9 | 19.2 | 67.8 | 2.5 | 5.6 | 24.1 | 7.2 |
| Palkonda | 58.2 | 5.3 | 13.6 | 22.9 | 38.1 | 5.4 | 6.5 | 50 | 25.7 |
| Sarvasiddhi | 36 | 6.6 | 4.3 | 53.1 | 32.8 | 4.2 | 11.2 | 51.8 | 27.1 |
The divergencies in the circumstances of the three taluks are further exhibited in the following statistics of the percentage of the assessed wet and dry land, respectively, in each which is assessed at the various rates :—