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38 ADMINISTRATION RETORT OF Til* PERSIAN GULP POLITICAL
The (ime taken up for saifee sowings is about seven months, the
following being cultivated: tobacco, watermelon, mashmelon, vc<^e-
tablcs, cotton, sesame seeds, lentils, &c., rice, gram.
A tax of 20 per cent, ad valorem on the outturn is levied by Govern-
ment, three-fifths of which is payable by the proprietor of the water and
two-fifths by the cultivator, and the balance is equally divided between
the proprietor and cultivator.
Hicc and gram, however, form an exception, and are cultivated under
the following conditions :—
The agriculturist recoup himself for the quantity of seed supplied by
him, after harvest. He then goes into equal shares with the water-
owner who alone pays Government taxes as follows : if a ryot, he pays
three-fifths of bis share to Government; if a non-ryot, he pays only
half, the agriculturist paying no tax on his share.
In all cases the Government share of the produce is to be carried to
Government.stores at tho cultivator’s expense.
The approximate value of the produce on the spot is—
Wheat at 40 to GO cents per Kazeroon mauud.
Barley ,, 25 ,, 30 „ „ 31
Gram ,, 50 ,, 80 „ ,, n »
Sesame „ 70 „ 100 „ tj
Maithee „ 15 „ 20 „ „ )f f>
Dholl ,, 15 „ 20 „ ,, n a
Cotton „ 2$ ,, 3 krans ,, a
Rice >, 50 » 80 cents „ )) if
The expenses of a ryot cultivator in Kazeroon, supposed to have one
wife and two children, arc ten tomans per annum.
The yield of wheat and barley is from ten to twelve-fold in a good
year and three to four in a had one.
Rice in a had year yields twenty-fold and in a very good year sixty­
fold. Cotton five-fold in a bad year and ten-fold in a good year.
Irrigation in Kazeroon is generally conducted by means of kanats,
and the water thereof should in all eases be allowed free passage across
grounds, even though not belonging to the proprietor of the kanat.
Should the proprietor of a kanat not wish to undertake any saifee
cultivation, he would still be made liable by Government to such taxt? as
may be due by the cultivation.
The land in Kazeroon is sown every alternate year. Tbe portions
remaining fallow are ploughed.
No taxes whatever are levied by Government on gardens at
Kazeroon.
In the cultivation of the poppy at Ktfzeroon, the proprietor provides
the land, seed and expenses of sowing; the cultivation is then mad©
over to the ryot who undertakes all the labour necessary for the tending
of the crop till tbc season of collection, when the proprietor pays for tbo
labour of incision, say one kran per man per day. Tbe outturn is then
equally divided between the landowner and ryots. No taxes are levied
by Government on the cultivation of opium at Kazeroon.
There are large tracts of land in Fare with plentiful supply of water,
but owing to tbe perennial growth of rank gras3,cultivatkra is impeded