Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.51
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.51
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c20.51
There is cultivated in Malabar upwards of fifty kinds of rice. They are each distinguished by a separate name, by some peculiar quality, and different modes of cultivation are of course pursued. Some kinds grow on the hills and do not require irrigation. These are called Poonum and Modun. They are much longer in ripening than the usual cultivation. There is one species which is propagated by cuttings, a mode which I never heard of except in Malabar. An account of all the different kinds of rice cultivated in this province, will be found in the tables, at the end of this article.(Omitted here.—Editor)