Abstract

The Government of India recommended the Package Programme for increasing the production of raw cotton in Madras State during 1962-63 and also offered to give additional help to the State for implementing the scheme in specified areas. It was however, recommended that the specified area should, as far as possible, have assured water supply for irrigation and that such areas should have well developed Co-operatives and Panchayat Institutions and be free from natural hazards, problems of drainage, salinity and susceptibility to floods. Based on this recommenda- tion, the Madras Government sanctioned the Cotton Package Scheme from 1-9-1962. This report presents the progress of work done in the Cotton Package Programme implemented in the 3,000 acres of summer Cambodia cotton in Tirunelveli and Ramanathapuram districts during 1963-64. The problems encountered in the actual implementation and the extent to which it was tackled are also discussed with some suggestions for future work.

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