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Khun Aek Farm General Population 2024
Khun Aek Farm General Population 2024 is a domesticate landrace cannabis accession collected by Isabella of the Zomia Collective in Sakhon Nakhon Province, Thailand.
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Ganja Mahal
Ganja Mahal was the licensed ganja-cultivation tract of the Bengal Presidency, the only area in which the cultivation of cannabis for the production of narcotic ganja was permitted under the colonial excise system. Consolidated from the 1850s into a compact zone astride the districts of Rajshahi, Bogra and Dinajpur in northern Bengal, with its administrative headquarters at Naogaon, the Mahal was the source of almost all the ganja legally traded in Bengal and, after 1894, the model for the system of ganja administration that the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission recommended for the Central Provinces, Madras, Bombay and Berar.
The term mahal denotes a revenue estate in Bengal administrative usage; the Ganja Mahal was unusual in being defined not by a landholding boundary but by an excise monopoly on a single crop. Licensed cultivation was confined within the tract, manufactured ganja was held under bond in government warehouses (gola), and duty was levied as the drug passed out of the warehouse to the wholesale trade.
The tract lay entirely within what is now north-western Bangladesh. Its relationship to present-day West Bengal is threefold: the Bengal Presidency, of which West Bengal was a part, administered the Mahal until 1947; the partition of Bengal placed the whole cultivation belt in East Pakistan while West Bengal retained the downstream consumption markets and the wholesale and retail vending network centred on Calcutta and the Hooghly riverside; and deposits held by the cultivators' cooperative at the Bengal Cooperative Bank in Calcutta were never recovered after 1947. read more →
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