Abstract

Rice finds elbour room :--Paddy Breeding was for over 12 years confind to a small area of land adjoining the Coimbatore Farm wetlands.The singling out of a promising strain which was christened G.E.B.25 led to systamatic efforts being made to row it under diverse conditions before it could be put out into the distrivts on a huge scale.This brought into existense the Aduthurai Farm in the Cauvery delta two years ago. Appreciation of the work on paddy encouraged the opening of a third station in Marteru in the Godavari delta this year.Release of 126 lakhs of rupees from the local contribution to the Central Revenues his occasioned the earmarking of 4 lakhs for the Development Department and oppertunity has been taken to make arrangements for establishing a Rice Breeding Station this time in South Malabar. Ganjam alone of all the chief rice growing tracts is thus without a station.She has been asking for a farm for nearly 20years now.We hope that it will be her turn next.For we need not labour the point.that in regard to area under paddy and the number of varietiesgrowing she stands almost second in the presidncy. that ideas not yet been provided with a farm iswe belive , more -------lack of President effect and enthusiasm on her part,through...wasone of the earliest districts to earliest co evience interest in agricultural season and crop report shows that in 1923-27 the acreage under paddy in the disricts was as follows.

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