ABSTRACT
The correspondence between a high density of population and extensive double-cropping is one of the remarkable features of the rural economy of the Upper Ganges Valley. In the districts of the Eastern Gangetic Plain the influence of seasonable and sufficient rainfall upon the extent of double-cropping is very great. In the districts of Sub-Himalaya, East, double-cropping is extensive because of the annual inundations in the alluvial lowlands locally called Kacchar lands. In the Western Gangetic Plain the increase in the extent of double-cropping in some of the districts has been mainly due to the extension of canal irrigation. The influence of agricultural enterprise upon the extent of double-cropping is seen to best advantage in some of the districts of Oudh and the Western Gangetic Plain. The cheaper varieties of rabi and kharif food-grains which are essential for the subsistence of the cultivator and his family are commonly raised by means of double-cropping.
