Indigenous weather and forecast practices of Coimbatore district farmers of Tamil Nadu

Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 630-633

  Anandaraja, N ^a   Rathakrishnan, T ^a   Ramasubramanian, M ^a   Saravanan, P ^a   Suganthi, N S ^a  

^a TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Almanac; Coimbatore; Indigenous forecasting; Tamil Nadu; Traditional knowledge; Weather forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952149402     PISSN: 09725938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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