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Department of Agriculture Madras. Annual Report of the Anakapalle Experiment Station For the Year 1928-29

1929

The expenditure previously incurred in connection with the maintenance of the school garden in the office of the Deputy Director of Agriculture, 1 Oirole, from April 1928, both months inclusive, is to be added to this figure to arrive at the total expenditure of the year. [...] The wet land is a heavy alluvial clay loam, formed by the deposition of silt from the Sarada river and typical of the best lands of the locality. [...] Rimlipatam jute. —This crop is not grown in the neighbourhood of Anakapalle, but is limited t o a well-defined tract in the northern part of the district, where the soils are red and of heavier texture than those round Anakapalle, It is grown in the punasa " season and is sown broad- cast and is followed in the " pedda panta " season by a pulse crop or ragi. [...] The main differences are that the land is always ploughed and is not crowbarred, that manuring is confined to sheep-penning or the application f cattle-manure or both prior to the planting of the crop and to the f te hrosia, while the crop is still young instead of oil-cake 1 taken over propping and wrapping +Am . smastown_ broadcast"17 in the same way and at the same wasteful rate of 20,000 to 30 [...] After the removal of the gingelly crop, the indigo takes complete possession of the land and when ready is cut and carted to the local indigo factory.
agriculture environment
Pages
18
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100020
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i A. C. Edmonds, S. Patrudu view
Annual Report of the Anakapalle Experiment Station for the Year 1928-29
1-14 A. C. Edmonds, S. Patrudu view
Appendices
15-17 A. C. Edmonds, S. Patrudu view

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