The Graduate Farmers of Chithradha

Abstract

'Black to land'by even agricultural graduates had been a failure.But it came as a pleasant surprise to hear during the recent tour in the Circars,that several non-agricultural graduates have taken up to farming as their profession in life and that they have been doing it most successfully,in the village of Chithrada,two miles to the east of Pithapuram.Most of them by virtue of connection or abilities to influence,had opportunities to enter Government service in decent jobs,but it seems they deliberately preferred to take up to farming as a profession on their own estates which varied from 15 to 50 acres.The attraction of growing sugarcane and obtaining good profits was also there.They have not regretted their decision and on the other hand they are highly satisfied to note that they are much better off than what they would have been if they had entered the much coveted service.It would be interesting to give below the financi- a l positionwith the balance sheet of one who has been oldest atit and who has been able to give very reliable figures.This would give the readers asn idea of the position they occupy in relation to other profe- ssions or industrial enterprises managed with the same amount of capital.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.194915

Pages

92 - 93

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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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