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1104 TURKEY AND TKIHUTAItY STATES :—EGYPT
Extent of holdings.
5 feddans and undci
5-10 feddans .
10-20 ,,
20-30
30-50
Over 50 ,,
Total
Number of
landholders.
. 513,080
75,130
39,620
13,140
8,980
11,430
. 661,380
Totals of
Arena.
Feiiflans.
933,700
552,700
560,300
326,100
347,800
2,000,700
4,721,300
Areas under '
mortgage.
Frikliuis.
21,400
16,000
20,400
19,600
25,900
292,300
395,600
Amount of ;
debt. !
£K.
573,300
392,200
407,700
307,200
409,900
5,233,000
7,323,300
The Egyptian agricultural year includes three seasons or crops. The
leading winter crops, sown in November and harvested in May and June, are
cereal produce of all kinds ; the principal summer crops, sown in March and
harvested in October and November, are cotton, sugar, and rice ; the autumn
crops, sown in July and gathered in September and October, are rice, sorgho
(a sort of maize), and vegetables generally. In Lower Egypt where perennial
irrigation is effected by means of a network of canals tapping the Nile and
traversing the Delta in every direction, the chief crops are cotton, sugar-cane,
rice, Indian corn, wheat, barley, clover, cucumber; in Upper Egypt where
the basin system of irrigation, i.e. submersion at high Nile is generally
adhered to, cereals and vegetables are produced, but in summer cotton and.
sugar-cane are grown in the Fayum and Ibrahimia canal tracts. "Where there
is perennial irrigation two or three crops are secured annually ; lands irrigated
in flood only are under millet, or if low-lying are drained when the flood goes
otf, and then produce the winter crop of wheat, beans, or clover.
Extensive works are in progress at Siut and Assuan for the purpose of
facilitating irrigation.
The production of cotton in 10 years was :—
Year
1890-91
1891-92
1892-93
1893-94
1894-95
Kantars
4,072,500
4,072,520
5,118,150
4,933,666
4,615,270
Year
1895-96
1896-97
1897-98
1898-99
1899-00
Kantars
5,275,383
5,879,750
6,543,128
5,588,816
6,510,000
The area under wheat is (in acres) about 1,262,000; maize, 1,592,000 ;
cotton,' 906,000 ; sugar cane, 67,120. In 1899 the sugar crop exported
amounted to 64,390,550 kilogrammes, valued at £E664,427, and the cotton
exported amounted to 6,001,222 cantars (of 50 kilogrammes), and valued at
£E11,598,222.
In the following table the agricultural condition of each of the provinces
in Lower and Upper Egypt is indicated;—
10.1057/9780230270305 - The Statesman's Year-Book, Edited by John Scott-Keltie
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