Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XIX. - The planatations

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352 CHAPTER. XIX, in India, the seed had to be imported from China. Once it was discovered that the tea plant was indigenous to Assam, the future of the industry was assured. The earlier efforts to grow tea in that province were marked by many failures, but from 1859 there followed a period of speculation which continued until a severe crisis in 1866. From this the industry emerged on a much sounder foundation and its subsequent history in Assam and Bengal has been one of fairly steady expansion. The figures below show the growth of the industry in British India from 1875 on- wards :-— 1875-1879 (average) . 1880-1884 (average) . 1885-1889 (average) 1900-1904 (average) 910 915 920 925 926 927 928 090 Year, Area under Tea in 000 acres. 73 2] 307 IN 2 " 3. Tne - Production in 000,000 1bs. cd 57 90 195 249 352 322 335 364 361 372 401 [ndia is now the largest tea-exporting country in the world, and it is estimated that it supplies about 40% of the world demand for this commodity. We give figures showing the value of the exports of tea during the last four years and the percentage it bears to the value of the total exports from India. These figures include tea grown in Indian States. 1026-27 .. 1927-28 .. 928.29 .. 1929.30 Year ’ se Amount export- ed (million lhs,). 349 362 360 977 Value in lakhs, Sum shown in Col 3 as 9, of value of total exports. 29,04 9 32,48 10 26,60 8 26,01 8 Coffee. The coffee industry began in 1830 When the first planta- tion was started in Mysore, but its cultivation is believed to have been introduced into India from Mecca as early as the 16th cen- bury. From Mysore the cultivation of this crop spread rapidly to Coorg, the Nilgiris, the Wynaad, the Shevaroy Hills and Travancore. By 1862 the industry reached its zenith ; three years later the borer beetle and the leaf blight which followed affected it seriously. As a

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