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The Tropical Agriculturist. The Agricultural Journal of Ceylon October 1938

1938

It was stated there that future expansion must take place in the empty spaces of the dry zone and that the Department of Agriculture proposed to send one of its officers to Australia to study the operations of the large farm on the assumption that the large farm worked with powedriven implements would form the unit of development when Government had completed its schemes of reservoir irrigati [...] Even if the complete eradication of malaria is impracticable the great effort which is now being made by the Sanitary Department must eventually succeed in achieving a measure of control of this disease which would ensure at least the same conditions of health as obtain at present in the southern section of the NortWestern Province and the northern section of the Western Province. [...] Nevertheless the population that is required for the cultivation of new lands can be found only by a change of this system and by the release of the peasant of the wet zone from the strangle-hold of the uneconomic holding and of undivided ownership. [...] It is possible that the basal dressing of compost at the rate of 10 tons per acre has so raised the fertility level of the soil that the addition of any one of the fertilizers in this experiment was not effective in increasing the yield. [...] However chillies form one of the important annual money crops of the dry zone and work is in progress on the improvement of this crop and efforts are being directed towards an increase in the output of dry chillies in the country.
agriculture environment
Pages
68
Published in
Sri Lanka
SARF Document ID
sarf.120021
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Ceylon’s Agricultural Problem
199-200 unknown view
A Further Experiment on Soya Inoculation in Ceylon
201-207 Malcolm Park, M. Fernando view
Spacing and Manurial Experiments With Tomatoes—I
208-212 W. R. C. Paul, E. S. Jayasundera view
Spacing and Manurial Experiments With Tomatoes—II
213-216 W. R. C. Paul, A. W. R. Joachim view
Manurial Experiments With Chillies
217-230 A. W. R. Joachim, W. R. C Paul view
Facilities for Artificial Insemination of Cows
231-232 unknown view
Soil Fertility Nutrition and Health
233-240 unknown view
Crop Rotation With Special Reference to the Principles of Green Manuring
241-248 unknown view
Factors in Successful Farming
249-254 unknown view
Minutes of a Meeting of the Board of the Tea Research Institute of Ceylon Held in the Committee Room of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Colombo on Thursday August 25 1938 At 10.45 A.M.
255-258 unknown view
Animal Disease Return for the Month Ended September 1938
259-259 unknown view
Meteorological Report September 1938
260-260 unknown view

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