Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.79
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.79
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13. Rice lands are always manured to the utmost of the zamers(sic) abilities. They spare no expense in this. In the Concan they cover the fields with a thick layer of leaves, brush wood and even hay and set fire to it. Even in Bombay rice fields are manured by using hay for this purpose. This manure is not got without considerable trouble and expense, and more than this, nothing shows more the care and skill of the cultivator.