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India’s Drought Crop Losses

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 10, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 15.

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India’s Drought Crop Losses

LORD CURZON, viceroy of India, in an address before the council at Calcutta, in advocating the budget for the year, stated that the loss to the wheat crop, caused by the drought during the present year, is from forty to fifty million dollars. The loss to the cotton crop is thirty-five million dollars, while the oil seed crop, usually covering eighteen million acres, is “nonexistent outside of Bengal and the North-west Provinces.” The loss to cultivators in Bombay alone in food crops is seventy-five million dollars, and in cotton twenty million dollars.