Excerpt from Agricultural Journal of India, 1906, Vol. 2
Throughout the early half of the last century, numerous efforts were made by the East India Company to introduce rhea as a textile staple, and later the Indian Government considered the fibre of such importance that in 1869 two prizes of and and again in 1877 prizes of and were offered for machinery or processes by which the fibre could be prepared in such a way that it would meet the requirements of the market. Competitive trials were made at Saharanpur in 1872 and 1879, but no machine was found to satisfy the conditions of success. All these endeavours failed, and the Government’s Offer of prizes was eventually withdrawn.
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