Cultivation of Linseeds or Flax Fiber Crop in India
Cultivation of Linseeds or Flax Fiber Crop in India Linseed, linola, and fiber flax are all synonyms for the same
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Fiber Crops
Cultivation of Jute (Corchorus spp.) in India
The importance of Jute in our economy hardly needs to be emphasized. It is one of the major foreign exchange-earners. Exported as manufactured goods and as raw fiber, it earns foreign exchange of around 3,000 million rupees per annum.
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Cultivation of Sunn-Hemp (Crotalaria Juncea) in India
Sunn-hemp is also raised as a green manure crop. If a sun hemp crop is grown for green manuring purposes, the crop is turned under with a soil inverting plough when the plants are about six to eight weeks old. It adds about 40-60 kg of nitrogen per hectare to the soil on its decomposition.
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Cultivation of Cotton; A Complete Guide of Information
Cotton can be successfully grown on all soils except sandy, saline, and waterlogged soils. It is grown on all types of soils, i.e., sandy loam, clay loam, loam, alluvial soils, black cotton soils, red sandy loams to loams, and lateritic soils.
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