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The Tropical Agriculturist. The Agricultural Journal of Ceylon February 1938

1938

Report of the Proceedings of the Inaugural Meeting of the Reconstituted Central Board of Agriculture 96 Minutes of the Fortieth Meeting of the Board of Management of the Coconut Research Scheme (Ceylon).. 114 Minutes of a Meeting of the Board of the Tea Research Tnstitute of Ceylon 118 RETURNS Meteorological Report for the Month ended January 1938. L3 Animal Disease Return for the Month ended [...] It results in a definite reduction in the degree of soil fertility and this process is a cumulative one which increases considerably with the passage of time if insufficient measures are taken to prevent it.86 The removal of the protection to the soil provided either by ' the natural vegetation or by the crop itself at once exposes the soil to the tropical sun and to rain. [...] The raising and maintaining of the fertility of the soil is the basis of the production of remunerative healthy and economic crops and live-stock. [...] The former is primarily accomplished by retaining on the land as near as possible to where it falls the maximum amount of rainwater suited to the crop being grown by increasing the density of the vegetative cover and the moisture retaining capacity of the soil to its maximum and by constructing the necessary catch-pits contour trenches or lock and spill drains to hold up the run-off water. [...] There is no evidence in support of the belief that forests increase the rainfall of a country ; indeed by the transpiration from their leaves they must reduce the total amount of the rainfall retained by the soil but they serve as its regulator ; as the rain falls it is absorbed by the spongy soil below the trees rich in humus and reappears later in the springs and rivers when the rainy seas
agriculture environment
Pages
60
Published in
Sri Lanka
SARF Document ID
sarf.120021
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
The Co-Ordination of Agricultural Research
69-70 unknown view
Yam Cultivation in the Kegalla District
71-79 J. De Soyza view
Temperatures Lethal to the Green Muscardine Fungus Metarrhizium Anisopliae (Metch.) Sorok
80-83 A.L. Johnpulle view
The Importance of Soil Conservation
84-87 W. C. Lester-Smith view
The Paris Green Treatment of Paddy Fields in Antimalarial Work
88-90 W.R.C. Paul, W.A. Gomes view
Soil Erosion: the Growth of the Desert in Africa and Elsewhere
91-95 unknown view
Report of the Proceedings of the Inaugural Meeting of the Reconstituted Central Board of Agriculture
96-113 unknown view
Minutes of the Fortieth Meeting of the Board of Management Coconut Research Scheme Held at Bandirippuwa Estate on Friday December 10 1937 at 10.30 A.M.
114-117 unknown view
Minutes of A Meeting of The Board of The Tea Research Institute of Ceylon Held In Committee Room of The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Colombo on Thursday December 23 1937 At 2. 30 P.M.
118-122 Roland Norhis view
Meteorological Report January 1938
123-123 A.P. Kandasamy view
Animal Disease Return for the Month Ended January 1938
124-124 M. unknown view

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