No limit to area, no premium to encourage padi growing | Daily Express Online
Rent for next 4 years ... 50 cts. per acre. Rent for next 5 years ... $2 per acre less rebate $1.50 = 50 cts. Rent thereafter ... $3 per acre less rebate $2.50 = 50 cts. It is hoped that by this means the cultivation of rice will be encouraged and so increased that this country will gradually become more and more independent of imports of foreign rice, and not therefore liable to suffer from enhancement of prices when there is a rice shortage in Burma or Siam, from which countries the bulk of rice imports is obtained. Improvement of Water Control Naturally the question arises as to me...
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