Abstract

Sothuperambedu village some 12 miles N. W. of Madras. The maltivation of Plantain is a special feature of this village, a large area being ander it every year. The cultivation of plantain in this or in the surrounding villages is said to have been unknown some 20 years back and the first introduction of systematic cultivation appears to have been made by Messrs. T. R. Tawker & Sons of Madras into the adjacent village Sarapet, and thence copied into Sothuperumbedu it has since made good progress and the cultivation is now dono in a very carefal manner. Most of the lands in this village depend upen lift irrigation, from wells or the tank channel and the prosent con- finement of plantain cultivation meely to this village is perbape largely due ita immunity from water logging, which during the heavy north-east monsoon is inevitable in the neighbouring villages

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