Some useful plants for green manure purposes,for the saline tracts of the Presidency

Abstract

"GROW MORE FOOD'is the slogan which War II and partly due to the shortage of food crops on account of the ever-increasing population.India is passing through a critical period with regard to her food problem. India's production of food crops has not yet reached a level so as to be reckoned as self-sufficient.To keep pace with the rapidly increasing population,there should be a corresponding augmentation in production. The countries from which she was getting her food supplies,especially rice,from Burma,Siam etc.,to meet her deficit,have also suffered during war and countries all over the world are not happy to ensure imports. There is besides,economic considerations,and we cannot be identifinitely importing.With the available cultivable lands,we are faced with problems of increasing food production by adopting all possible ways and means.Among the various methods suggested,the problem of manuring the fields has to be given a very prominent place in this work as it is a well known fact that our lands are impoverished.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.1959B4

Pages

568 - 572

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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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