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Indian Farming September 1947

1947

Usually the quantity of water held in the soil after the monsoon partcularly in areas of low rainfall is limited more by the amount of water available for storage that is the amount of the rainfall than by the storage capacity of the soil. [...] H. PARR the cause of the small differences between the yields of the flooded and rain-fed plots in the experiments in years of good mosoons. [...] every month throughout the year and is heaviest during the growing period of the crop that is April to July in the Indian area the rainfall is usually limited to two months during the growing period of the crop and seldom exceeds 2 in. [...] If the rains in September are deficient in amount or the precipitations occur mainly in the early part of the month the consevation of adequate moisture in the seeing zone is not possible unless the deficiecies of rainfall are made up by irrigation water during September. [...] Although in the dry farming wheat belt of America rain is received in amounts which we in northern India would cosider very satisfactory during the cold weather it is interesting to note that even there there is a fairly close correlation between the yields of wheat and the amount of the rainfall of the months imediately preceding and immediately suceeding the sowing of the crop (Augu
agriculture environment
Pages
73
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120055
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Tree Plantation
434-435 unknown view
Use of Surplus Monsoon River Water to Increase Crop Production
436-443 C.H. Parr view
Livestock Position in the Indian Union
444-446 H.K. Lall view
Development of Fisheries in the Punjab
447-453 Hamid Khan view
Valencia Orange Holds Out a Promise in Assam
454-456 S.D. Choudhury, S.C. Bhattacharyya, S. Dutta view
How to Keep Pigs for Profit and Food
457-459 K. Ahmed view
How to Store Sugarcane after Harvest
460-461 Jiwandas Chopra view
The Possibilities of the Jeep in Agricultural Operation in India
462-464 D.T. Brown view
The United States Government Imports Red Sinidhi Cattle from Allahabad
465-ii James Warner view
Delhi Celebrates Tree Plantation Week
466-468 U.N. Chatterjee view
What the Scientists are Doing
469-469 unknown view
You Ask We Answer
470-470 unknown view
What’s Doing in All-India
471-475 unknown view
Across the Borders
476-478 unknown view
Home Gleanings
479-485 unknown view
Book Reviews
486-487 unknown view
News and Views
488-489 unknown view

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