Of the occupied area in 1905-06, a total of 220,000 acres or 14 percent were under new and old fallow, the new fallow being 40,000 acres and the old 180,000.  At settlement 310,000 acres or 20 percent of the occupied area were fallow, and the cropping is now therefore considerably more close. The proportion of cropped t occupied area in each tahsil at settlement, the balance being fallow, was Nagpur 79; Umrer 17; Ramtek 83; Kotal 88. Mr. Craddock remarked on this subject: The Katol tahsil is the best cultivated, in spite of the larger proportion of stony land which it contains; Ramtek comes next and Umrer is last Some allowance must be made in Umrer for the fact that the surface is undulating and dries rapidly, but the fahsil is a whole much under-cultivated. The cultivators there are the least industrious; holdings are large and rents low; while the number of uninhabited villages,  known as rites is disproportionately high. Though its best soils are inferior to the best soils of Katol, it has a much smaller proportion of poor land, and resting  fallows are seldom a real necessity. There is thus great scope for increase of cropping in Umrer, as well as over part of Nagpur tahsil where similar conditions prevail.’