ABSTRACT
The boundaries of India are more or less fixed by ranges of mountains or deserts while Russia had the whole of Siberia and most of central Asia to use. Though such use has not been easy, yet a very large part of the available area has been taken in hand. The establishment of the Suratgarh Central Mechanized farm has been made possible by the gift of agricultural machinery by the Soviet authorities for a 30,000 acre farm,—the largest farm in Asia. In a desert area of Rajasthan, where water has recently become available and where there was little or no population, the establishment of this farm may be expected to show what can be achieved in places which have been almost completely desert. The actual yields per acre of the more important food crops were as follows compared with the official averages for the Punjab.
