Abstract

                                The mandarin orange is estimated to be grown over an ares exceeding 10,000 acres in this province. Its cultivation is confined largely to the hilly tracts and extensive belts under this fruit are met with on the slopes of the Nilgiris, Shevroys, Lower Palnis and Wyanad between the elevations of 1,250 feet and 4,500 feet above sea level. The fruit is grown universally under rainfed conditions and more often than not as an associate crop mainly with coffee and to a less extent with tea. Being treated more or less as a plantation crop the production costs are low, and the fruit is therefore an important complement in the fruit wealth of the province.

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