94 SOCIAL SCIENTIST 97 Techno-Economic Survey of Konkan Region-Ratnagiri District, p 53. 9< Directorate of Geology and Mining, Geological and Mineral Resources of Maharashtrai p 65-66. 99 R V Kulkarni, op dt. This is confirmed by government reports, Socio-Economic Review, 1976-77, according to which, in 1976, 8.67 metric tons of the total produce was sent out. It also mentions Sethi Nippon as one of the three engineering units set up in the neighbouring area of Kudal taluka. Ibid, p 7. 100 Soda-Economic Review, 1972-73, p 5. 101 Soda-Economic Review, 1976-77, p 82. 102 G D Deshpande, op dt, p 50. The estuaries also yield local fish, but of little commercial value. 108 Soda-Economic Review, 1976-77, reports 1300 metric tons of prawns arc exported annually, p 7. 104 Ibid, p 64. 10^ Ratnagiri District Hand Book, p 11 (Figures based on 1951 census). 108 Joseph Pinto, "Land Relations in Kondivile", in Under development of Ratnagiri, Department of Sociology, University of Bombay, Mimeo, p 30. 107 Ibid. 108 Soda-Economic Review, 1976-77, p 45. 109 N Kunchur and K. R Dikshit, ^Agricultural Landscape of South Konkan", The Geographical Knowledge, Vol 5-9, 1972-1976, p 16. The soil is fairly well supplied with nitrogen and organic matter, Soda-Economic Review, 1976-77, p 2. 110 Socio-Economic Review, 1976-77, p 21. m The percentage of fallow land in Ratnagiri is tvvo and a half times higher than the state average, Ibid, p 21. 112 The total area under food grains in 1974-75 was 228,140 hectares; it fell in 1975- 76 to 224,400 hectares, while area under fruit rose from 19,539 hectares to 22643 hectares for the same period. 1H District Census Hand Book, Ratnagiri, 1971, p 41. 114 Only two southern talukas, Venguria and Malvan, can boast of two crops. But it is marginal and constitutes only 4.35 percent of the net sown area. Sodo-Economic Review, 1976-77, p 19. iio Pinto, op dt, p 31. Also, B Arunachalam, Bombay Geographical Magazine, Vol XIV, No 1, December 1966, p 17, 116 S R Tikekar, Maharashtra: Land, its People and its Culture, pp 48, 49. 117 Maharashtra, 1973-74, Central Government Press, p 42-44. 118 Sugarcane is an irrigated crop, C D Deshpande, op dt, p 77. He also mentions that gross income from sugarcane outstrips that from other irrigated crops in spite of heavier water requirement. Ibid, p 79. 119 Ibid, p 79. 120 Socio-Economic Review, 1976-77, p 49. 121 The study group under the chairmanship ofNihal Ahmed, Minister of Employment, Manpower and Development, suggests building cement concrete bandaras, The Times of India, Bombay, 20 February 1980. 132 C D Deshpande, op dt, p 73. 12d B Arunachalam, Maharashtra, op dt, p 261. 124 Arunachalam, Bombay Geographical Magazine, op dt, p 17. 125 Maharashtra, 1973-74, p 49. Sodo-Economic Review, 1976.77, p 6, reports 25 cashew-nut factories have sprung up in the district. ^ Bombay Gazetteer, 1880, p 114, 225. 127 Ibid, p 137. 188 M Savur, "Metropolitan Periphery Relations in Mango Pickling'*, in Underdeve- lopment of Ratnagiri, Univcisity of Bombay, 1979, Mimeo, p 34. 129 Soda-Economic Review, 1976-77, p 33, 35. 130 Ssdo-Economic Review, 1972-73, p 29-30. The same trend continues.