Paddy occupies the largest area of cultivated crops in Madras and is grown in delts. Along river banks .Refrences to the grain in old indian literature and the ancient irrigation systems bear testimoney to its antiquity as the most important staple food crop of the Country.Water is the first and deciding limiting factor for the growth of the crop and,barring some localities receiving sift from higher a large preporation of the paddy of the paddy soils in Madras with alone the writer is quitebe saidto have reached their minimum cropping value and this statement is sabstan reached their minimumcropping value.and ths statement is substantiatedby Dr.Butler who, in an account of his deputation to the International rice Congress in Spain in 1914.published in volume IV of the Agricultural Journal of India.1914 gives the following figures as the average yields of grain per acre in different countries.
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