Chapter 877: Agricultural Resources of India

The Federal Convention lasted for a few days, and the whole process was like a tearing war, with the princes of the various federal dominions desperately fighting with the princes around them for the benefit of their territories. Because many of the federal dominions bordered areas were blurred during the Mughal era, it was impossible to determine the specific boundaries of their respective territories.

Ding Xinghao and the Foreign Affairs Secret Service of the Ministry of Intelligence were fully responsible for coordinating the division of territories among the various federal dominions at the conference. Many of them were transferred from the Nanyang Development Company, and under the influence of the big traitor Fan Wencheng, all of them have rich work experience.

They tirelessly helped the princes of the various federal dominions to coordinate the contradictions between their territories, and of course there were indispensable means of fanning the flames and sowing discord, so that the entire federal congress was full of gunpowder, and there were disputes of one kind or another between almost all the federal dominions, and even many federal autonomous territories of different races and religions formed hatred for each other, which bought the bane for the future war between the two federal autonomous territories.

After a few days of fighting, the Far Eastern Company organized the Indian Federal Assembly finally came to an end, and all the princes of the various Dominions of the Federation left Agra Fort, some of them were disappointed and annoyed, and some were satisfied, anyway, the seeds of hatred had been planted, and the Far Eastern Company could move a small bench to sit and watch the play in the future.

While the princes of the federal dominions were desperately tearing apart, hundreds of thousands of Ming exiles from Ceylon were transported to various parts of India to start their new lives.

The next step will be a large-scale migration of the company to India, and the situation that Liaodong cannot accept displaced people in the winter will also be changed immediately. The company will transport displaced people to Liaodong during the spring and summer, and resettle the displaced people in India during the winter instead.

India is a vast country with abundant natural resources. Among the various landform types, low and gentle plains, low hills and plateaus occupy obvious advantages, accounting for about 70% of the country's area. Mountains account for only a third. The soil is fertile, and more than half of the land can be cultivated, which is unmatched by many countries in the world.

Due to its low latitudes, the Tropic of Cancer passes through the central part of the territory and the Himalayas in the north, so that most of the area has a typical tropical monsoon climate. The average annual temperature in various places is mostly between 24-27°C. 3-5°C higher than other parts of the world at the same latitude. With an average annual rainfall of 1170 mm, the rainfall is extremely abundant.

In addition to rice, wheat and other food crops, it is also suitable for the development of tea, coffee, spices and other tropical and subtropical cash crops. According to the characteristics of India's long growth period, Indian agricultural scientists in modern society study the use of varieties with short growth period to grow four crops a year on the same land, such as leguminous - maize - potato - wheat.

Sufficient light and heat resources have created conditions for experiments to improve the multiple cropping index, and at the same time, due to sufficient heat, tropical cash crops such as rubber, cardamom and tropical fruits such as mango and banana can be widely cultivated.

In most areas, crops can be harvested twice a year. Some areas can be triple cropped. There are many rivers and lakes in the territory, and the water area is vast, which can be used for the development of freshwater fisheries, irrigation and shipping. There are many varieties of natural plants. Among the more than 30,000 kinds of plants, there are many precious tropical economic forest trees, such as iron knife wood, rosewood, teak, sandalwood and other precious forestry resources.

There are many kinds of crops that can be grown on a large scale, and many cash crops and livestock products in modern society are important export materials for India. In terms of planting area, peanuts, sesame, castor, jute, sorghum, beans, pineapples, cardamom, etc. all rank first in the world, and rice, tea, rape, sugarcane, etc. are also in the forefront of the world.

Judging by the total production. Beans, castor beans, tea, sesame, and pineapple are all the world's first, and rice, sorghum, peanuts, jute, and sugarcane are also the world's second

In addition to the large-scale exploitation of agricultural resources in India. It is also possible to vigorously develop animal husbandry and raise domestic animals such as cattle, sheep, pigs, donkeys, and horses, as well as poultry such as chickens, ducks, and geese. Moreover, India's long coastline allows for large-scale exploitation of marine fisheries. India's inland areas have a large number of rivers and lakes, as well as wetlands and ponds, which can be used to develop freshwater aquaculture.

Of course, due to the influence of natural conditions such as high temperature, strong evaporation, excessive concentration of precipitation, obvious dry season and large variability of precipitation, the development of agricultural production in India has been limited to a certain extent.

Moreover, the distribution of land in India in this era was extremely irrational. Feudal and semi-feudal relations of production play a very unfavorable role in hindering agricultural production. The vast majority of smallholder farmers and yeoman farmers still rely on the sky to cultivate the land, because there is not enough agricultural infrastructure, which makes floods frequent in India.

Even so, India's rich agricultural, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry resources are compared with those of the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty. Except for some parts of Jiangnan, which are barely on par with India, the conditions in other regions are simply not comparable to India.

After the Far East Company occupies India, it will also invest a lot of resources to gradually build large-scale agricultural infrastructure in the Indian region. We should vigorously develop agriculture, forestry, fishery, and animal husbandry industries, and build India into another granary in the Far East.

Anyway, India is a treasure land, and since the Far East is here, it is absolutely impossible to leave. Such a superior climate and geographical conditions, but later generations were made a mess by Ah San.

India has the second largest amount of arable land in the world, after the United States. Although China's total land area is only one-third, its arable land area is slightly higher than China's.

However, India's rice and wheat production is lower than China's, ranking second in the world, and China's rice and wheat production is about 40% higher than India's. India's fruit and vegetable production is also second only to China, ranking second in the world, but China's fruit production is three times that of India's. India's paddy field area is higher than China's every year, but China's production is much higher than India's. Even in terms of cotton production, which India has made great strides, China's raw cotton production is 40% higher than India's.

According to the Global Hunger Index released by the International Food Policy Research Institute, India's hunger index in 2012 ranked 15th in the world, higher than a large number of hungry African countries such as Zimbabwe and Uganda, and even 13 places higher than the impression of North Korea, which has frequent famines.

Hungry India is the world's largest rice exporter. In the past three marketing years, India has exported more than 10 million tonnes of rice, accounting for more than one-quarter of the global rice export market. India is also a net exporter of wheat. Wheat exports in 2012/13 even surpassed those of Ukraine, a major wheat exporter. At the same time, "obese" China is the world's largest importer of rice and a major importer of wheat.

It has such unique climatic conditions and agricultural resources, and all the arable land in India is in the tropics, with two crops and three crops a year, and even four crops in some areas. Wheat in the United States, which can be grown on poor, unirrigated land, is also produced in the same way as in India. I don't know how India runs agriculture and how production efficiency is so low. (To be continued.) )