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As part of our Agriculture for Everybody  blog series, we are going to see how to select the Crops (Groupwise) based on Water Needs. The Data provided below will help the farmers choose the crops based on the water availability.  The data has been grouped together for easy understanding. Cereals High Water Requiring Medium Water Requiring Low Water Requiring Rice  (1100-1250 mm) Wheat  (450-650 mm) Fibre Crops High Water Requiring Medium Water Requiring Low Water Requiring Jute Cotton  (550-600 mm) Agave Flower Crops High Water Requiring Medium Water Requiring Low Water Requiring Anthurium Carnation China Aster Chrysanthemum Crossandra Cut Chrysanthemum Cut Rose Dendrobium Orchid Gerbera Gladious Golden Rod Jathimalli (Pitchi) Lilium Malligai Marigold Maruvu Mullai Nerium Rose Tuberose Forage Crops High Water Requiring Medium Water Requiring Low Water Requiring Cumbu Napier Deenanath Grass Fodder Cholam Fodder Cowpea Fodder Cumbu Fodder Maize Guinea...

In our Agriculture for Everybody  blog series, we are going to see how to select the Crops based on Water Needs. The Data provided below will help the farmers choose the crops based on the water availability. High Water Requiring Medium Water Requiring Low Water Requiring 1.Arecanut 1.Acidlime 1.Agave 2.Banana 2.Allspice 2.Amla 3.Betelvine 3.Amaranth 3.Annona 4.Cocoa 4.Annual Moringa 4.Apricot 5.Coconut 5.Apple 5.Bengalgram 6.Grapes 6.Ash Gourd 6.Ber 7.Jute 7.Asparagus 7.Bilimbi 8.Oilpalm 8.Aster 8.Blackgram 9.Papaya 9.Avocado 9.Carambola 10.Rice 10.Babycorn 10.Cashewnut 11.Sugarbeet 11.Basella 11.Castor 12.Sugarcane 12.Beetroot 12.Cowpea 13.Sweet Sorghum 13.Bellary Onion 13.Cumbu Napier 14.Bhendi 14.Cumbu 15.Bitter Gourd 15.Fodder Cholam 16.Bottle Gourd 16.Fodder Cowpea 17.Bread Fruit 17.Fodder Cumbu 18.Bread Fruit 18.Fodder Maize 19.Brinjal 19.Garden lablab 20.Broadbeans 20.Gingelly 21.Brussels Sprout 21.Greengram 22.Butter Bean 22.Groundnut 23.Cabbage 23.Guinea Grass 24.Car...

As part of our Agriculture for Everybody blog series, we are going to see the General List of Plants used in Live / Bio Fence / Natural Fence as well as few Windbreakers. The following list of plants can be utilized for Live / Bio Fence / Natural Fence and some of the large trees can be used as Windbreakers and it will better if the farmer goes for locally available material so as to reduce the expenses.  The below list will be updated as and when there are more data available. S.No. Botanical Name Common Name Tamil Name Habit Condition Role 1 Acacia caesia (L.) Willd. Climbing prickly shrub Dried Mechanical barrier 2 Acacia chundra Willd. Small tree Dried / Live Mechanical barrier 2a Acacia Concinna Shikakai, Soap-pod Climbing prickly shrub Live Mechanical barrier 2aa Acacia Mellifera - - - Live Mechanical barrier 2b Acacia nilotica subsp. indica  Gum Arabic, Babool ??????? Live Mechanical barrier 2c Acacia nilotica ssp. Tomentosa Tomentose Babool ??????? Live Mechanical barr...