Abstract

During the last week of August, the Assistant Principal took the Second Year Students on tour. On this occasion, the students spent wosk in camp visiting Erode, Tirupathur and Vaniambady. At Erode, the Assistant Director of Agriculture, Southern Division with his assistant met the touring party and took round Brode and Unjalur. The students observed the intensive wet cultivation that is in praetico around Erode made detailed enquiries regarding plantain and turmeric caltivation for which Erode is noted. The importance of the Bhavani River to the Coimbatore District was brought home to the minds of the students and the methods of farming of the greedy ryota in taking three anecessive paddy crops in a year in certain plots of their holdings protected by the Kalingarayan Channel were most interesting. On account of the intensive wet cultivation ryots have to spend much money and energy in getting green leaves, especially Kolingi, from far off places, and the great necessity of the introduction of green manure crops into that locality was forcibly brought home the minds of the students.

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