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No. 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, February 5, 1908,
Sir Henry Cotton,-To ask the Secretary of State for India, what was the area of land in India under cultivation with opium, and what was the total number of provision chests of opium exported from India, during the past three years 1904-5, 1905-6, and 1906-7.
1904-5 1905-6 1906-7..
Answer.
Acres (excluding failures). Chests of provision opium exported. 587,140 47,855 613,996 48,833 553,697 53,588The acreage here given is for the Bengal and Behar Opium Agencies, which alone furnish provision opium.
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