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Title: Indian cotton
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Associations Pearse, Arno Smith, 1872-
Subjects: Cotton manufacture Cotton trade
Publisher: (Manchester)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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f the Government reported since my visitthat the fields looked in excellent condition. The labour supply in Assam is, no doubt, a seriousLabour. problem. The tea planters, with their powerful Asso- ciation, exercise a domineering influence over all the INDIAN COTTON. 193 other industries. The tea planters were the first to import labourfrom the plains of Assam, Nepal, Madras, Chota, Nagpur, &c. Thislabour is imported through special firms, established in various partsof India, and all over Assam the companies send duffardars, a kindof foremen, to recruit labour. Every new labourer receives an advanceas soon as he agrees to hire himself out. The duffardars act alwaysas a kind of foremen over their workers. It is to them that the wagesare paid, and in case of disputes they approach the masters. Theworkpeople are supposed to pay back the advances gradually. Thepresent rate of wages on the Rungia Estate is 6 annas per man.The women and children of the tribes living in the Kamrup plain
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Assam Women on a Fishing Expedition,do not work in the fields, but seem to spend their time fishiru in the many dykes that abound in that part of the country. The possibilities of Assam are hardly known yet. Itis, however, patent to every traveller wrho visits thatcountry that it is enormously rich in vegetation ; andmany hold the opinion that Assam is the most fertileprovince in the whole of the Indian Empire.At present the Department of Agriculture has only onefarming expert, who, owing to the diversity of thecrops and the long distances he has to cover by trainand elephant, finds it quite impossible to study anyone crop thoroughly. Besides looking after the variouscrops he is supposed to train a subordinate staff, butthis, of course, he is unable to do when he is touring in the coun-try. Two additional agricultural experts are most urgently wanted.The Government has the following farms :—Shillong—for cattle and goats.Jorhat—for sugar cane and soil research.Karimganj—for pad

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