Table 1


Yields of Rice per Acre in Tamilnadu as Obtained
by Crop-Cutting Experiments (lbs.)

                                                           
	          1870A	   1870B     1901     1911     1917
 Chingleput	    919	     813    1,011    1,165    1,136
 North Arcot	  1,776	   1,571    1,206    1,478     n.a.
 South Arcot	  1,149	   1,016    1,201    1,406    1,624
 Salem	          1,488	   1,316    1,378    1,633    2,149 
 Coimbatore	  1,931	   1,707    1,405    1,554    1,794
 Trichinopoly	  1,097	     970    1,366    1,569     n.a.
 Tanjore	  1,046      925    1,022    1,006    1,132
 Madura			            1,352    1,677    1,872
 Ramnad				             1,331     n.a.
 Tinnevelly	  1,770	   1,566    1,428    1,649     n.a.

Source: Haruka Yanagisawa, A Century of Change: Caste and Irrigated Lands in Tamilnadu, 1860s-1970s, Delhi, 1996, p. 291.
Notes: 1870A: Calculations are based on the assumption that "1 Madras Measure of unhusked paddy = 2.6 lbs. of (husked) rice"
Notes: 1870B: Calculations are based on the assumption that "1 Madras Measure of unhusked paddy = 2.3 lbs. of (husked) rice"