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dated November 29, 1960: Cashew trees

A matter for concern in Kerala to the cashew industry is the cutting down of blocks of cashew trees wherever they are planted on large holdings and the conversion of the land to rubber. Under the Kerala Land Bill, rubber is entitled to exemption from the limitations of land holdings, but cashew is not. The area under large-scale holdings in cashew is not large, but the danger to the industry is that the development of cashew cultivation on a plantation scale may not take place. At least one large company was planning the development of a large cashew plantation-cum-factory in 1955 and abandoned the whole idea when the then Travancore-Cochin Government introduced the first Land Ceiling Bill. The Rubber Board has distributed about 3.34 million seeds during the half year ended September 1959 according to a report of the activities of the Board just received. The seeds are sufficient for bringing 10 to 12 thousand acres under high yielding rubber.

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