Abstract

The cultivation of this variety of paddy is confined to the lands under the branch channels from the main ones of the Bhavani river where water is allowed from 15th June to 15th November to these reaches. This is a heavy yielder when treated in the 'dry seed bed' system. As much as 30 salagais or nearly 5000 lbs. are obtained. The object of the ryots is to raise seedlings so as to enable them to plant them by the end of June or beginning of July as this is considered to be the best season for it. Several ryots resort to the practice of ploughing up a small area near the main channels by hand watering it and then preparing it for sowing paddy seed beds. After 3 or 4 ploughings, cattle manure or ashes is applied and ploughed again. The paddy seed is broad-casted and covered by ploughing or in some cases by merely levelling the field with a mammatti or by hands.

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