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A NOTE ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF SUGARCANE CULTIVATION IN THE GOLUGONDA TALUQ VIZAGAPATAM DISTRICT

Volume : 17
Issue: Jul-jul
Pages: 346 - 355
Published: August 11, 2023
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Abstract


The sugarcane crop in this taluk is mostly concentrated along the course of the River Varaha and its main tributary, the Kothakota river, occupying an area of about 1,500 acres. This tract possesses good facilities for both flow and lift irrigation. The crop is cultivated mostly on wet lands in rotation with paddy (once in 3 years), but in a few places it is also raised on garden lands entirely under lift irrigation. The sugarcane tract may, for convenience in dealing with the improvement of the crop, be divided into 6 areas, viz.

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346 - 355
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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