Abstract

                                In the Grow More Food Campaign one of the ways recommended for stepping up production is manuring of crops. Ragi is an important crop among millets grown under irrigated conditions and as a staple food crop it is important in districts like Salem. Visakhapatnam, Chicacole and Coimbatore, where the crop is cultivated extensively. This grain crop is usually manured either with farmyard manure, or by sheep penning. But in these methods due to limited availability of the manures, either increasing the dosage or extending the area of application possible beyond is a certain limit. As an alternative groundnut cake is being advocated by the Agricultural Department, since large quantities of the same are available in districts growing groundnut and having oil-extracting mills. With the idea of finding out the economic dose of this manure to ragi grown under irrigated conditions, investigations were done at the Sugarcane Research Station, Anakapalle, during the period 1946 to 1949 and the results are summarised in this note.

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