With the intensive propaganda carried on all these years, there is practically no cultivator of rice who does not grow some strain or other of it, to suit his soil, climate and season. All have realised the importance and necessity of paddy strains but from a study of the crops grown by them, during his visits to several villages in the six districts, under his charge, the author still finds that in at least more than half the area, the purity of the strain under cultivation has not been kept up at the desired level.
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