35 1916.

Crop. Area ia Feddans.

Total Yield in Thousands.

Average Yield per Feddan.

Cotton Wheat Barley Rice Maize Millet Sugar canje 1,655,512 1,394,184 422,765 148,264 1,674,540 244,745 59,224 Kantars.

5,060 88,134 Ardebs.

6,630 2,391' 579 11,655 1,984 Kantars.

3-06 6-44 Ardebs.

4’76 5-3-91 6-8-11 1917.

Cotton \Yhoat Barley Rice Maize Millet Sugar cane 1,677,310 1,075,656 478,670 263,022 1.623,395 264,396 62,229 5-03 5-72 4*66 7-8-1918.

Cotton Wheat Barley Rice Maize Millet Sugar cane 1,315,572 1,239,128 324,153 371,274 1,745,332 202,694 63,575 4,820 40,332 5,831 1,841 1,741 11,881 2,542 3-66 6-34 4*71 5-4-69 6-8*40 1919.

Cotton Wheat Barley Rice Maize Millet Sugar cane 1,573,662 1,274,929 343,478 • Not yet 57,139 . 6,024* ascertained.

88,600 5,467 1,830 3-83* 6*76 4*29 5-33 Cotton ..

Wheat .. Barley .. Rice Maize Millet Sugar cane AVERAGE FOR 1909-13.

Kantars. Ardebs.

4*17 4*88 5*64 4*80 6*74 7*82 6*36 N.B.—1 feddan = 1*038 acres. 1 ardeb = 5*444 bushels.

* Estimated.

In his report for 1913 Lord Kitchener referred to certain legislation regarding agricultural co-operative societies. The law in question was passed, with amendments, by the Legislative Assembly just before the outbreak of war. The Government, however, has postponed the examination of the amendments of the Assembly, and the law has therefore remained unpromulgated. In January 1919, an enquiry was conducted into the working of such agricultural co-operative societies as had come into existence, and it was ascertained that out of a total number of 47 societies, which had been started chiefly through the personal energy and influence of some official or notable, 32 ha disappeared, while 16 were working with tolerable success, the most successful being in the province of Daqahlia.

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