[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Agriculture in India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.randhawa-1980) › v1.c19.s6.7 # A History of Agriculture in India v1.c19.s6.7 A History of Agriculture in India v1.c19.s6.7 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.randhawa-1980.v1.c19.s6.7) The granaries also indicate that payment to labourers was in kind. As in the Indus Valley, all important cities in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley had granaries. A text from Ur implies that one of the granaries stored enough barley to provide wages for 4,020 days; another text refers to the commandant of the granary who was responsible for seeing that 10,930 man-days’ payment was made out of his store, presumably in barley, to meet the wages of the workers from the town; the workers included scribes, overseers, shepherds and irrigators. Another text refers to royal barley, to be returned with interest, received by Lulamu from the granary of the canal-bank. All these documents are of \*c.\* 2130-2000 B.C. Another tablet of the same period records a harvest gathered from certain fields belonging to the temple of Nan-she in Lagash.⁵ - [Previous: v1.c19.s6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.randhawa-1980.v1.c19.s6.6) - [Next: v1.c19.s6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.randhawa-1980.v1.c19.s6.8) - [Up: v1.c19.s6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.randhawa-1980.v1.c19.s6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.randhawa-1980.v1.c19.s6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.randhawa-1980.v1.c19.s6.7) · Pramāṇa