Agricultural Jottings

Abstract

Transplanting Paddy in Anantapur. In Anantapur taluk noted for its very low rainfall and absence of any large irrigation systems.approximately 20,000 acres are under paddy.As can be expected the supply of water in tanks is casting when tanks receive their full supply.No advantage is taken of small supplies of water reserved in July and August.but cultivation is delayed till December leading to wastage of water.In order to remedy this defect the Department of Agriulture has been doing propaganda and demonstration in raising dry nurseries of paddy in July and August with the available supply of water and starting cultural operations taking advantage of early rains and in transplanting seedlings in August and September.In spite oof strong opposition from a section of Ayacutdars to open the sluuices in August.demonstrations were conducted under Anantapur and singanamala tanks during the three years 1932-35.It was demonstrated that the increased yield by transplanting varied from 9-12% and the extra produce was valued at at about Rs.5per acre.It is interesting to note that the methods recommended are gaining ground also under spring channels and wells .in one particular village (illur)it is reported that broadcasting has been completely replaced by transplanting .At present about 10%of the total area is under this new method.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002152

Pages

227 - 228

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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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