Agricultural News Letter

Abstract

Mixed Crpping of Groundnut and Cotton.Experiments conducted at the Agricultural Research Station.Lam.- Guntur District,on mixed cropping of groundnut and cotton in the proportion of eight of the former to one of the latter shoed that the yield of bunch groundnuts was not affected and that cotton recorded yields. - ranging from 260-380 lbs.of seed cotton per acre.Both cotton and groundnut were sown on July 22,1948 and groundnut was lifted on November 12,1948.Among the various varieties of cotton tested for mixed cropping .cotton types from U.P.happened to be the earliest and the next in order being 197-3 from East Khandesh and 88l F.from Adoni.U.P.types being early,shed flowers and bolls,while the others escaped this defect by their late maturity and are of better quality and ginning outturn.Frmers of the Ceded Districts.the Circars and Nellore are advised to give this mixed cropping a trial.Even at a modest estimated verage aprodution of 50lbs.of lint per acre.it should be possible to produce two lakhs bales extra.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.194956

Pages

288 - 290

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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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