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Not AvailableTHE PAPER DEALS IN DEPTH OF RAISING BHABAR GRASS ( EULALIOPSIS BINATA) IN THE SHIWALIK HILL REGIONS. IT DISCUSSES THE VARIOUS METHODS OF RAISING THIS GRASS AS PURE AS WELL AS IN COMBINATION WITH TREES. EXPERIMENTS HAVE REVEALED ITS AVERAGE AIR DRY YIELD PER HA PER YEAR TO BE 15 TONNES AS PURE IN GOOD SOIL, 8 TONNES IN BOULDERY SOIL, 5 TONNES WHEN GROWN ALONG WITH EUCALYPTUS AND 0.3 TONN PER 100 METRE LENGTH OF FIELD BUNDS. IT WAS FOUND THAT A LABOURER CAN EARN RS 15 TO 20 PER DAY BY MAKING ROPE AFTER PAYING THE COST OF BHABAR @ 400 /- PER TONNE. THE MODUS OPERANDI OF LARGE - SCALE RAISING OF BHABAR HAS ALSO BEN DISCUSSEDNot Availabl