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| Article Name : | | | HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: AGRICULTURE , ANICUT SYSTEMS AND IRRIGATION WORKS IN ERSTWHILE SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU | | Author Name : | | | P.UTHAMAN | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-2483 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Cultivable land is a valuable asset of a village. Proper irrigation of land yields profit to cultivators and revenue to the Government. Expanding population and agriculture have made land increasingly valuable, and government moved to realsie as much of that value as possible in immediate in the past and present. Waste land considered to have abandoned by cultivators. In villages, waste land included a variety of types and uses. Some had never been farmed. It was a dry land for grazing, for fire wood, for brick clay, and for future residential sites. Some land have been deprived of irrigation by a broken tank but not suitable for dry crops. Some have been used in longfallow farming, planted once in as many as ten years. For quite a long period, composite South Arcot District remained a backward area both in agriculture and allied activities. The people of this District, though hard working in nature remained unemployed due to vast tract of uncultivable barren land. Therefore to alleviate the sufferings of the eople, the subsequent governments had paid proper attention to develop agriculture and other allied activities to make the people self-sufficient. | | Keywords : | | |
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