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A Note on Calcining of Bones as a Village Industry

Volume : 36
Issue: Jun-jun
Pages: 250 - 254
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Abstract


Manuring of crops for increased production without disproportionate increase increase in the cost of production is aimed at by all producers,and in this endeavour,simple process of conversion of bones as a cheap phosphatic manure is presented below for adoption in villages.By a judicious combinaton with, green manures,compost ,farm yard manure,oil-cakes and nitrogeneous fertilisers,it has been established that the phosphate manure plays a very importantt role in higher crop yield.Different rops remove from the soil varie quantities of phosphates,and unless the loss is recouped.the gradual decline in fertility with consequent low yields will be obvious.The Government in their Government Order No.2693,dated10-7-46 ordered publication of work on calculation for the benefit of ryots.This article it is hoped,will stimulate the village Industry and benefit thr ryots.

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250 - 254
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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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