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license and the regulations as to sale of the produce which exist in British
territory:�

There are also ten acres of regular cultivation in the Aundh State under the
Satara Agency, which lies in the Deccan Division. There is no information of
any homestead cultivation in the States in the south of the Presidency, nor of
field cultivation in any State except those named above.

The north of the Presidency.

129. Turning northwards, there is no evidence of any cultivation till Baroda is
passed. This State is under the direct control of
the Government of India, and may be dealt with
separately. In the Rewa Kantha Agency the plant is not cultivated at all. In
the Palanpur Superintendency the authorities of Palanpur and Radhanpur re-
port that there is no regular cultivation, but the plant springs up spontaneously
to a very small extent in irrigated lands, and in fields situated on river banks
and beside water. The information seems to imply that the plants are tended,
and from Palanpur it is stated definitely that the plant is sometimes grown in
gardens. It may be noted that a small import of bhang from Palanpur into
the Bombay district is said to occur. The same state of things probably
prevails in the Mahi Kantha Agency; for though it is reported from Idar, the
principal State, that there is no cultivation, the Native Assistant to the Political
Agent states that the plant is not cultivated "to any extent," clearly implying
that there is some cultivation. And matters are not very dissimilar in Kathia-
war, for the Assistant Political Agents in charge of the Halar and Gohilwad
Prants write that there is no cultivation for the market, but in some places a
few plants are reared in sugarcane fields and wadas for home consumption and
gifts to holy men. The report from the State of Cutch describes similar culti-
vation. A witness of Hyderabad (Sind) states that ganja is imported from
Panvel and Cutch. This may, and probably does, mean that it comes through
Cutch from Panvel, a place near Bombay, where a wholesale business is
carried on.

Sind and Khairpur.

130. There is a certain amount of cultivation in Sind for bhang, principally in
the Shikarpur district, and some in the Khairpur
State also. The average areas for quinquennial
periods during the last twenty years and for the year 1892-93 are given below:�