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AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION
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CROP ROTATION
The scope for crop rotation is meagre in this district. It is found convenient to allot separate fields for crops like paddy, millets and pulses according to crop requirements, and as these do not vary significantly, this allotment is more or less of a permanent nature. Further, low moisture retentivity of the soil and poor irrigation facilities do not permit growing of a variety of crops in rabi and hot weather season and, therefore, (for example) paddy is grown repeatedly in all the paddy fields. Even in places where water is available in winter, vaingan crop of paddy is taken immediately after kharif paddy.
In low lying fields, in rabi season, wal, pawata or kulith are taken after the harvest of paddy. Vegetables are also taken in paddy fields in rabi season near about towns after paddy harvest.
In varkas lands, rotation has got to be followed as soil gets gradually washed off. Even here lands have to be kept fallow in rabi season. These rotations are given below. The land is then left fallow for three to five years to allow for soil accumulation.
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Kharif. |
Rabi. | |
First Year |
Nagli |
Fallow. | |
Second Year |
Vari or Nagli or both |
Fallow. | |
Third Year |
Kodra (Harik) or sava or sesamum or niger. |
Fallow. |
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