Cotton and arhar, or Cotton and juar (millet) sown together are often more profitable than cotton alone.
Wheat and gram or chick-pea (Cicer arietinum). Wheat and mustard.
Wheat, barley and gram (Cieer arietinum). Wheat, barley, gram and rape.
(From Report on the Improvement of Indian Agriculture, J. A. l'oelcker, pp. 234, 235.) The following crops are placed in the order in which they would ripen and be cut ; two or more of them are often sown together.
Rape, sveti-sorse, mustard, lentil, linseed, native peas (Pisum arvense), khesari (Lathyres sativus), wheat, barley and gram or chick-pea. (From Hand book of Indian Agriculture, p. 266, N. G. Mukerji.) Rice is grown continuously on flooded land.
Indigo (a legume) is frequently grown contin uously on the same land.
Bengal.
Main crop sugar. Four crops in two years. Prep aration : Jungle cleared in March to May and sown to aus paddy pr maize, which is harvested in Sep tember ; then potatoes : 1, Potatoes, harvested in February and sugar-cane planted ; 2, sugar-cane, harvested in February and followed by either cow peas, dhaincha (Sesbania aculeata), sunn hemp (Croto laria juncea) or indigo, to be succeeded by potatoes, gram (Sorghum vulgare) or pulse, preferably kurthi (Dolichos biflorus).
High and light soils. Nine crops in five years : 1, Aus paddy (May to September), followed by a pulse or oilseed crop or the two mixed together (October to March); 2, jute (April to September); followed by a pulse or oilseed crop or the two mixed together (October to March); 3, aus paddy (May to September), followed by potatoes (October to February); 4, sugar-cane (February to February); 5, aus paddy (May to September), followed by a pulse crop (October to March). (Handbook of Indian Agriculture, p. 367, N. G. Mukerji.) For low and light soils. Eight crops in five years: 1, Maize, sown in April, til (Sesamum Indicum), and barley, sown in September ; 2, sugar-cane, sown in February ; 3, sunn hemp and jute, sown in March, and mustard and country-peas (as distin guished from European or American peas), sown in October ; 4, aman paddy, sown in June ; o, cucur bitaceous catch-crop, sown in January, and aman paddy, sown in June.
For high and heavy land. Eight crops in six years : 1, Sugar-cane, sown January to February ; 2, buhri cotton (if virgin soil), or (if old tilth) arhar or pigeon-pea (Cajanus Indices), sown in May ; 3, jute, sown in April ; linseed and gram (chick-pea), sown in October ; 4, maize, sown in April ; linseed or kalai (Phaseolus radiates), sown in October ; 5, aus paddy, sown in May ; cowpeas, sown in September ; 6, fallow, also used as a cattle run, on which the cattle graze and are fed.
For low and heavy soils. Six crops in five years: 1, Aman paddy, sown in June, and a cucurbitaceous catch-crop, sown in January ; 2, aman paddy, sown in June ; 3, jute, sown in March, kalai (Phaseolus radiates), musuri or lentils (Breum lens), khesari (Lathyrus satires) and linseed, sown in October ; 4, aman paddy or a sugar-cane that can with stand water ; 5, fallow. (Consult the Handbook of Indian Agriculture, p. 368, by N. G. Mukerji, Calcutta.) Burdwan division, India.
Dearh land (sandy soils near rivers). A six-year rotation, furnishing ten crops and one year fallow. Good rotation, recommended for such conditions : 1, Aus paddy (an early-maturing, rather coarse rice), followed by a pulse or oilseed crop, or the two mixed together ; 2, jute, followed by a pulse or oilseed crop or the two mixed together ; 3, aus paddy, followed by sugar-cane ; 4, sugar-cane, fol lowed by aus paddy ; 5, potatoes, followed by aus paddy ; 6, bare fallow.
2-course : 1, Aus paddy ; 2, wheat or barley.
Dacca.
3-course : 1, Potatoes ; 2, rice or jute ; 3, chilies (Capsicum frutescens).
2-course : 1, Jute ; 2, tobacco or a pulse (legu minous) crop.
Lohardaga. On uplands.
4-course : 1, Millet ; 2, rice ; 3, pulse ; 4, millet, followed by an oilseed or pulse crop.
Palamau.
3-course : 1, Cotton ; 2, gingelly (oilseed); 3, Bodo (millet, Paspalum scrobiculatum).
6-course : 1, Maize or millet ; 2, wheat ; 3, wheat ; 4, wheat ; 5, legume ; 6, legume. (Voelcker, Indian Agriculture, p. 235.) Northwest provinces of India.