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Land Management in the Punjab Foothills

1946

The immense areas now under perennial irrigation are not by any means sure of their winter water and one of the objects of this book is to show how the progressive deterioration of the main river catchment areas in the hills endangers the prosperity of these canal colonies. [...] more than half of which are now under irrigation ; and the soils of sloping lands derived from the underlying rock such as the light -loam soils from the granite and gneiss of the Himalayan outer ranges and the friable shales and soft sand-rocks of the Siwliks and Salt Range. [...] The depth of agricultural soil in the Punjab varies greatly averaging several feet in the best alluvial plains and in such areas as the Sohan Dun in Hoshiarpur and the Chawal tehsil north of the Jhelum Salt Range. [...] where that milk diet is of the utmost importance in raising the standard of human nutrition and the quality as well as the quantity of the milk output deteriorates wherever the animals are not prperly fed. [...] The value of cut grass is also rather low in the fooGrass-land Improvement hill areas partly owing to the natural poorness of the grass crop from land which is heavily overgrazed for at least nine months in the year partly owing to the method of harvesing the grass.
agriculture environment
Pages
101
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145920
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii R. Gorrie view
Frontmatter
i-v R. Gorrie view
Chapter I—Introduction
1-2 R. Gorrie view
Chapter II—The Various Uses of Land and Their Contribution Towards Prosperity
3-10 R. Gorrie view
Chapter III—The Various Uses of Land and Their Contribution Towards Prosperity
11-16 R. Gorrie view
Chapter IV.—The Various Uses of Land and Their Contribution Towards Prosperity
17-20 R. Gorrie view
Chapter V.—Classification of Land and Effect of Past Control
21-25 R. Gorrie view
Chapter VI.—The Menace of Erosion and Drought
26-32 R. Gorrie view
Chapter VII.—Farm Erosion and its Control
33-41 R. Gorrie view
Chapter VIII—Grazing-Land Control and Improvement
42-53 R. Gorrie view
Chapter IX—Forest Management as Affecting Agriculture and Land Reclamation
54-63 R. Gorrie view
Chapter X—Land Management and Agency of Work
64-68 R. Gorrie view
Chapter XI—Developments in the Hoshiarpur Siwaliks
69-76 R. Gorrie view
Bibliographic References
77-77 R. Gorrie view
Appendix I
i-viii R. Gorrie view
Appendix II
ix-xi R. Gorrie view

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