CROPS 



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KODO MILLET. 



(Paspalum Scrobiculatum.) 



Tamil Varagu. 



Telugu ' Arikelu. 



Kanarese Arikel. 



Oriya Khoddi. 



• Area in Madras — 1,721,800 acres. 



Commonly grown dry on poor soils often mixed with red 

 gram (sown in lines 4 feet to 5 feet apart) and seldom manured. 

 Occasionally heavy yields are obtained from alluvial or deep 

 black soils. A very hardy cereal which can be grown on any 

 soil. The grain can be kept good for many years and hence 

 it is a useful famine reserve, though the food and fodder are 

 both inferior. The straw is used as manure for salt lands. 

 . Seed-rate— 12 to 20 lb. 



Volume weight — 1 M.M. weighs 276 lb. 



Husk to grain— 40 per cent by weight. 



Weight of seeds — 1,000 seeds weigh 5'90 grammes. 



Number of seeds in 1 lb.— 76,900. 



Yield— 600 to 900 lb. of grain and 1,000 to 2.000 lb. of 

 straw. 



WHEAT. 



(Triticum Sp.) 



Tamil ... 

 Telugu 

 Malayalam 

 Kanarese 

 Tulu ... 



Godumai. 

 Godumalu . 

 Kotampam. 

 Godi. 

 Godi. 



Area in Madras— 18,300 acres. 



Wheat is not an important crop. According to Howard 

 the Madras wheats fall under three heads, viz. Triticum 

 vulgare, T. Durum and T. Dicoccum (Emmer). Some of the 

 dry wheats of i lie northern parts of the Deccan and Akkigodi 

 of Nilgiris fall under the first two varieties, whereas the 

 irrigated wheat of Coimbatore is Dicoccum. This last does 

 not thresh out clean, i.e., the " seed " is really the spikelet 

 containing two (sometimes three) grains. 



Seed-rate— 25 lb. (in 1 and 2) ; 60 to 70 lb. in Dicoccum. 



Weight of seed— 1,000 seeds weigh 30'6 grammes (Dicoc- 

 cum). 



Number of seeds in 1 lb.— 14,800. 



