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Prevention of Soil Erosion on Tea Estates in South India

Volume : 27
Issue: Jul-jul
Pages: 268 - 271
Published: November 15, 2023
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Abstract


The object of my contribution to your discussions, is to describe, what steps have been and are being taken to prevent soil erosion on tea estates in S. India. In one way tea estates present a special problem, but what I have to say about anti-erosion measures, applies very largely to any form of hill cultivation. Perhaps there are some of you not familiar with the tea industry in S. India, so I shall begin by saying that there are in Mysore, the Madras presidency and Travancore approximately 160,000 acres of tea. The chief districts in the Madras presidency are the Nilgiris, Wynad and Anamallais. In Travancore state tea is grown on the Kanan Devan Hills or High Ranges and in South and Central Travancore. Mysore and Cochin states have a comparatively small acreage.

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268 - 271
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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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