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The Geographical Teacher Supplement No 2 The Agricultural Geography of the Deccan Plateau of India

1921

The study of the Agricultural Geography of the Deccan is the study of the basis of practicalyeall !life in the region ; the sons of the Deccan are tillers of the land and on the return it gives their' for their labours they must live. [...] The i preserved on the plateau in the valley of the Godaveri only u extends as far as the junction of the Wharda and Penganga thought to have been deposited on the slrface of the old Gondwana and preserved in the slowly sinking faulted trough of the river. [...] The fact that the boundary of the trap was also the bdu.ndary of the regur was attributed to the sudden change from a clay to a sandy soil 1 and the occurrence of red soils within the trap regions; was proved to be clue to the normal weathering of basalt.2 The conclusion drawn therefore is that regur is a superficial formation due to subaerial weathering of either trap or metamorphic rock ail [...] They show as does that of Poona two maxima of rainfall but differ from the latter in that the minor maximum of the year comes at the beginning of the rainy season in June and the major maximum towards the end of the season in September or at some stations in the south in October. [...] 7) would also accourg for the very heavy September falls in tie heavy and certain raifall region of the Central Provinces: It is usual in India to have a heavy fall and then a break-; the better distributed the rain and the shorter the breaks the better it is for the cultivator although the Deccan possesses a very valuable attribute in the extent of its " regur " soils which being retentiv
agriculture environment
Pages
94
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142491
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-1 Ethel Simkins view
Chapter I. Physical Factors in Deccan Agriculture
1-27 unknown view
Chapter II. Crop Distribution on Deccan as Determined By Inter-Relation of Soil and Rainfall Conditions
28-68 unknown view
Chapter III. Study of Rural Economy of the Deccan
69-92 unknown view

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