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A fact from Agriculture in ancient Tamil country appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 July 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Kallanai dam, built by Karikala Chola to support agriculture in ancient Tamil country, is considered the oldest water-regulation structure still in use?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/July.

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Lotlil, This essay has a lot of information related precisely to this subject. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 15:25, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Sundar. Looks very interesting. Lotlil 23:26, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mallar

This article is completely about "Agriculture in ancient Tamilnadu", but it does not speak anything about the "Mallar" who are mentioned in all the Tamil literature as the people of "Marutham" land and they were the agriculturist. Separate poems were written about these people about their life and agriculture in Tamil literature like "Pallu" poetry. This article totally boycotting these people who were credited in Tamilnadu as the people who were doing agriculture from sangam ages to present day.Tamil1988 (talk) 06:57, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming the Article.

"Ancient Tamil country" is not an encyclopedic term. If it refers to the present day state of Tamil Nadu then it should mention " .. in ancient Tamil Nadu". If it includes the state of Tamil Nadu and Kerala then the title should be such. The present tile is not only misleading it is also political.Indoscope (talk) 08:41, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Techniques and tools: sickles and corn

The end of the section on techniques and tools claims that sickles were used to cut ears of corn. linking to the article on maize. Corn as in any grain seems likely, but as maize is native to the Old World and this is about ancient Tamil country, it seems unlikely that maize was present. Might it instead have been rice, sorghum, wheat, or any of these? Paculino (talk) 03:37, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]