Cultivation and Export Figures London, May 25, The Earl of Winterton (Under-Secretary for India), replying to Mr, E. T. Campbell (Conservative), stated that in 1922 the areas under poppy cultivation in British India and Indian States were 141,000 and 64,000 acres, respectively, compared with 116,000 and 57,000, respectively, in 1920. The figures for 1923 and 1924 were not available, The opium exported from India in 1924, under direct sales agreements between the Government, of India and the government of an importing country, and the opium auer tioned at Calcutta and exported on 'a League of Nations import certifi-Jeate from an importing country, was valued at 28,870,000 rupees, Jcompared with 34,412,000 rupees in. 1923, while 71,200 1b. of opium were Jexported to Britain in 1924 for medical and scientific purposes, at. 2s, 3d, per unit of one per cent, of morphine content—Reuter.
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