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Rainfall Pattern and Cropping System in Coimbatore

Volume : 67
Issue: Mar-mar
Pages: 171 - 176
Published: October 01, 2023
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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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171 - 176
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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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