Crop-Cutting Experiments

Abstract

Introduction.One of the three factors necessary for estimating the yield of a cro[,namely the"Standard or Normal Yield "is admittedly susceptible of considerable improvement in many Provinces in India.The Agricultural Department in each Province is responsible for fixing the"Normal Yield"per acre for the several crops in ach district.The estimate of normal yield is based mainly upon a system of crop-cutting experiments made over a number of years.Under this system.plots of land of average quality are selected are selected in each district by the officers of the Agricultural Department and the crops grown upon them are cut and weighed before them.The results of the experiments are reported to the Director of Agriculture,who on a careful scrutiny of all the reports received by him,and after comparing with scrutiny of all the reports received by him,anfd after comparing with such other information as may be available from trade statistics, settlement investigations and the ike,fixes the"Standard Yield'of eac crop foreach district,The setimates are genrally revised it necessary at the end of five years.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002102

Pages

93 - 101

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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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