Rural Economic Conditions of the Coimbatore District A Study of some Cultivators

Abstract

The agriculturists of the Coimbatore district are noted for their industry and hard work. Of late, they are also noted for their enterprising spirit, which is exhibited by their adoption of modern farming methods. The district receives low and ill distributed rainfall and in fact, some taluks are so defective in this respect, that failures of rains often result in famine conditions. Of necessity, therefore, the cultivator has to be hard working and try to raise some crop to eke out his living. The only remedy to overcome the deficit rainfall, is to tap the underground resources of water supply and conversion of dry land into gardenlands. This process of well sinking has been going on from early times and the total number of wells in the district utilised for irrigation is 1,08,254 and the area covered for irrigation is nearly 41 lakhs acres. However, the total area irrigated by wells is only about 17% of the total cultivated area at the present time and therefore the scope for more area coming under irrigation by wells is really very great.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002398

Pages

175 - 185

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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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