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  2. Agriculture in ancient Tamil country - Wikipedia

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    During the Sangam age, 700 BCE – 100 CE, agriculture was the main vocation of the Tamil. [1] It was considered a necessity for life, and hence was treated as the foremost among all occupations. The farmers or the Ulavar were placed right at the top of the social classification. As they were the producers of food grains, they lived with self ...

  3. Economy of ancient Tamil country - Wikipedia

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    The most important source of ancient Tamil history is the corpus of Tamil poems, referred to as Sangam literature, dated between the last centuries of the pre-Christian era and the early centuries of the Christian era. [48] [49] [50] It consists of 2381 known poems, with a total of over 50000 lines, written by 473 poets.

  4. Tamilakam - Wikipedia

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    Tamilakam covered today's Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, Lakshadweep and southern parts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. [1] Traditional accounts and the Tolkāppiyam referred to these territories as a single cultural area, where Tamil was the natural language [note 1] and permeated the culture of all its inhabitants.

  5. Economy of Tamil Nadu - Wikipedia

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    Tamil Nadu has the second largest economy of any state in India. [16] The state is also the most industrialised in the country. [17] [18] The state is 48.40% urbanised, accounting for around 9.26% of the urban population in the country, while the state as a whole accounted for 5.96% of India's total population in the 2011 census. [19]

  6. History of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    The History of Agriculture by Britannica Educational Publishing [42] holds that: In the later Vedic texts (c. 3000 -2500 BP) there are repeated references to agricultural technology and practices, including iron implements; the cultivation of...cereals, vegetables, and fruits; the use of meat and milk...and animal husbandry. Farmers plowed the ...

  7. Department of Agriculture (Tamil Nadu) - Wikipedia

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    As of 2022, agriculture contributed to 13% of the state's GSDP. [1] As of 2022, the state had 6.15 million hectares under cultivation. [2] The department is responsible to ensure stable agricultural production, devise and implement methodologies to increase food production and ensure availability of raw materials for agro-based industries.

  8. History of Tamil Nadu - Wikipedia

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    The east coast of Tamil Nadu was one of the areas affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, during which almost 8000 people died in the disaster. [112] The sixth most populous state in the Indian Union, Tamil Nadu was the seventh-largest economy in 2005 among the states of India. [113]

  9. Farming systems in India - Wikipedia

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    Despite the steady decline in agriculture's contribution to the country's GDP, agriculture is the biggest industry in the country and plays a key role in the socio-economic growth of the country. India is the second-largest producer of wheat, rice, cotton, sugarcane , silk, groundnuts , and dozens more.