Turmeric Survey

Abstract

Turmeric is cultivated in garden lands as well wetlands to the extent of about 3,100acres in Coimbatore District in the vicinity of either a river or its channel.The three important taluks growing turmeric are Bhavani.Gobichettipalayam - and Erode which constitute about 850 varies with the fluctuations in the price of turmeric in the Erode market.The crop is cultivated in about 2,000 acres in Karur taluk.(Tiruchirapally District)and a small area in Salem District and the entire produce is marketed in Erode which exports the cuted product to all places to all entire produce is Presidency and also to places outside India through commission agents in Calcutta,Karachi,Colombo,Bombay and Madras.The Porduce from Valliyampalayam area in Gobichettipalayam taluk is valued highest and considered to be the best among the produce received from different centres.The crop is valued as a dye-stuff in the foreign market apart from its demand as a condiment and use for medicinal purpose.The cultivation and yield vary with the nature of the soil.irrigation,water ,kind and availability of manure and also upon the skill of the cultivator.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.194971

Pages

367 - 377

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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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