Madras Agricultural Journal
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Rainfall Pattern and Cropping System in Coimbatore

Abstract

The daily rainfall data for the 25 years period (1953-1977) recorded at Agri- Meteorological observatory. Coimbatore, were analysed for annual. seasonal, monthly and weekly periods and presented in this paper. Based on the rainfall pattern, a suitable cropping system of growing cowpea fodder, two crops of sorghum fodder, redgram and bengalgram has been suggested in the place of growing one sorghum grain crop followed by bengalgram under rainfed conditions.

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