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that for nine months alone, from October 1896 to June 1897,
the rail-borne imports of food grain were 615,628 tons and
the exports 306,377, while this vast and beneficent trade
movement was effected not only without difficulty or apparent
effort, hut with great pecuniary advantage to the State.
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Of these imports nearly 325,000 tons came from Bengal,
the greater part being Burma rice carried from Calcutta.
Besides the usual traffic returns furnished by the Director
of Land Records and Agriculture a special record has bejen
maintained since the 30th January 1897, showing week by week
the imports and exports of food grain by rail for each district
of the United Provinces. Both of these sets of returns are
printed as an Appendix to this narrative. They display
certain discrepancies, due to the difference in the time which
they cover, to the different systems on which they are prepared,
and possibly to some difference in classification. The Director’s
returns are quarterly and prepared by large territorial blocks,
and do not show transfers from one district to another within
the same block. The Railway return is weekly, and shows
the imports and exports of each district irrespective of the
place of despatch or distribution. Both are confined to rail-
borne traffic.
During the Bund'elkhand famine in the summer of
1896 the net imports of food grain into the affected districts
amounted to 27,500 tons. The balance required for con-
sumption during the period was supplied by local stocks,
which were thus much depleted. In the last quarter of 1896
the net Provincial imports came to about 168,500 tons, of which
more than half was received by the Allahabad division and over
a quarter by Agra. The Benares block, including the Benares
and Gorakhpur revenue divisions, was the only other large
importer. At this particular time the Meerut division, in spite
of its prosperous condition and its good harvest, gave little
assistance to the distressed parts of the Provinces and on the
whole showed a net balance of' imports. The only exporting
division was Rohilkhand, which sent a substantial amount of
grain to Meerut and to the Panjab. It may be inferred that
the greater prosperity of Meerut enabled its people to retain
their produce either as a precaution against threatened distress
or in hope of higher prices later on while the more necessitous
peasantry of Rohilkhand were compelled to part with a portion
of theirs. The vast bulk of the net provincial imports came
from Calcutta and other places in Bengal. The Panjab
supplied practically nothing; but the Central Provinces, in
spite of their own distress, sent 16,600 tons; and the Bombay
Presidency and Port nearly 8,000.
In the first quarter of 1897 the Provinces received
a net import of about 1,92,000 tons, of which over 70,000 tons<
went to the Allahabad division. Rohilkhand in this period was
obliged to import about seven times the amount it had parted
that for nine months alone, from October 1896 to June 1897,
the rail-borne imports of food grain were 615,628 tons and
the exports 306,377, while this vast and beneficent trade
movement was effected not only without difficulty or apparent
effort, hut with great pecuniary advantage to the State.
/
Of these imports nearly 325,000 tons came from Bengal,
the greater part being Burma rice carried from Calcutta.
Besides the usual traffic returns furnished by the Director
of Land Records and Agriculture a special record has bejen
maintained since the 30th January 1897, showing week by week
the imports and exports of food grain by rail for each district
of the United Provinces. Both of these sets of returns are
printed as an Appendix to this narrative. They display
certain discrepancies, due to the difference in the time which
they cover, to the different systems on which they are prepared,
and possibly to some difference in classification. The Director’s
returns are quarterly and prepared by large territorial blocks,
and do not show transfers from one district to another within
the same block. The Railway return is weekly, and shows
the imports and exports of each district irrespective of the
place of despatch or distribution. Both are confined to rail-
borne traffic.
During the Bund'elkhand famine in the summer of
1896 the net imports of food grain into the affected districts
amounted to 27,500 tons. The balance required for con-
sumption during the period was supplied by local stocks,
which were thus much depleted. In the last quarter of 1896
the net Provincial imports came to about 168,500 tons, of which
more than half was received by the Allahabad division and over
a quarter by Agra. The Benares block, including the Benares
and Gorakhpur revenue divisions, was the only other large
importer. At this particular time the Meerut division, in spite
of its prosperous condition and its good harvest, gave little
assistance to the distressed parts of the Provinces and on the
whole showed a net balance of' imports. The only exporting
division was Rohilkhand, which sent a substantial amount of
grain to Meerut and to the Panjab. It may be inferred that
the greater prosperity of Meerut enabled its people to retain
their produce either as a precaution against threatened distress
or in hope of higher prices later on while the more necessitous
peasantry of Rohilkhand were compelled to part with a portion
of theirs. The vast bulk of the net provincial imports came
from Calcutta and other places in Bengal. The Panjab
supplied practically nothing; but the Central Provinces, in
spite of their own distress, sent 16,600 tons; and the Bombay
Presidency and Port nearly 8,000.
In the first quarter of 1897 the Provinces received
a net import of about 1,92,000 tons, of which over 70,000 tons<
went to the Allahabad division. Rohilkhand in this period was
obliged to import about seven times the amount it had parted