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Abstract

Coimbatore Betal Vine Station --Vellalur. The Betel Vine is an important crop in South India and is grown scatered in most districts of the Presidency.It is a delicate crop requirin ample shade and moisture and is cultivated with special care by different classes of skilled betel-vine growers.Owing to the nature of the crop and the intensive cultivation necessary which extends over the whole period of its growth it is planted only in small areas in any one lacality..Nellimaria in Vizagapatam.Dra sharma in godaveri,Nellikuppam in South Arcot,Ayyampet in Tanjaore, Singanallur in Coimbatore, are the most important centres, not to mention isolated plots in practically all other districts.the importance of this crop will be evident from the fact that during the past 30years during which parcel trafic has become more brisk than ever before,baskets and baskets of green leaves are railed to places as distant as Agra,Allahabad,Cawnpore,Lucknow,both through the eastern and western arteries of the Railway system,to be sold at what wouldbe considered leaves encasing arecanut powder.spices and chunam are sold under the name of 'pain'pice per roll.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002023

Pages

93 - 96

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© The Author(s), 2026. 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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