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More Money from Vegetables on Drylands

Volume : 35
Issue: Jul-jul
Pages: 137 - 140
Published: November 12, 2023
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Abstract


Vegetable cultivation is common in the neighbourhood of cities and towns under lift irrigation and this may be termed as commercial farming on intensive lines. The possibility of growing vegetables on a remunerative basis under dry farming conditions either on commercial or intensive lines, has not been thought of previously. Therefore it is of great interest to know that in Guntur Taluk there is a tract comprising four or five villages which grows vegetables of the common types on a field scale under entirely dry conditions. This tract is about 5 to 7 miles equidistant from the towns of Guntur and Tenali and the total area under vegetables grown in this manner is said to be nearly 2,000 acres. It is evidently a fruitful combination of climate (rainfall), soil and market that has been responsible for this new and interesting system of farming.

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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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