{"id":15068,"date":"2026-01-14T16:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpura.org\/blog\/?p=15068"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:06:06","slug":"1954-indian-central-arecanut-committee-annual-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpura.org\/blog\/1954-indian-central-arecanut-committee-annual-report\/","title":{"rendered":"1954 &#8211; Indian Central Arecanut Committee Annual Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through this post we are releasing the scan of <strong>Indian Central Arecanut Committee Annual Report <\/strong>published in the year 1948<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15069\" src=\"https:\/\/gpura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1954-indian-central-arecanut-committee-annual-report.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2391\" height=\"3747\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Fifth Annual Report (1953-54) of the Indian Central Arecanut Committee is a valuable historical document that captures the early post-independence efforts to organize, regulate, and strengthen India&#8217;s arecanut sector. Published from Kozhikode, the report reflects a period when agricultural policy, research and cocperative marketing were gaining national importance<\/p>\n<p>It also highlights the emergence of organized marketing through cooperative societies, price regulation, standardization and transport facilities. More than an administrative record, the book serves as a historical snapshot of agricultural policy and institutional thinking in 1950s India, making it a valuable reference for researchers and agricultural historians<\/p>\n<p>These documents are digitized as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indicarchive.org\/blog\/madras-university-library-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madras University Library digitization project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Metadata and link to the digitized document<\/h3>\n<p>Metadata and link to the digitized document are provided below. A facility to read the document online is provided in the item page.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name: Indian Central Arecanut Committee Annual Report<\/li>\n<li>Number of pages:\u00a0<strong>58<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Published Year:\u00a0<strong>1954<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Scan link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gpura.org\/item\/1954-indian-central-arecanut-committee-annual-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through this post we are releasing the scan of Indian Central Arecanut Committee Annual Report published in the year 1948 The Fifth Annual Report (1953-54) of the Indian Central Arecanut Committee is a valuable historical document that captures the early post-independence efforts to organize, regulate, and strengthen India&#8217;s arecanut sector. 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