Evaluation of agricultural land resources for irrigation in the cotton growing Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India.
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Evaluation of agricultural land resources for irrigation in the cotton growing Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India.
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Bhaskar, B.P., Prasad, J. and Tiwari, Gopal.
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Land suitability evaluation, Parametric method, Soil series , Surface irrigation
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The main objective of this study is to evaluate suitability of shrink-swell soils for surface irrigation system based upon a parametric evaluation system in low irrigation potential (7%) of cotton growing Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India. The thirty three shrink-swell soil series on basaltic landforms were identified from reconnaissance soil survey on 1:50,000 scale and evaluated for surface irrigation methods using Geographic Information System (GIS). The standard weekwise rainfall data showed that the rainfall is less than 20% of total precipitation during September and December, the top A horizon reaches to wilting point and needs supplementary protective irrigation to cotton based cropping systems . It was estimated that ten soil mapping units (1.8 Mha and 13.89%) of shrink-swell soils on moderate slopes (5 to 8%) were evaluated as suitable for surface methods and calculated the irrigation intervals that vary from 8.61±1.35 days for cotton to 8.9±1.4 days for wheat and 10±1.64 days for sugar cane. The study emphasized the utility of soil resource maps helps to delineate the soils with large PAWC(>200mm) with slight yield advantage and will serve as benchmark sites to monitor the interrelationships of soil water dynamics with respect to climate and cotton yields. Not Available |
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2019-12-28T10:48:44Z
2019-12-28T10:48:44Z 2017-03-31 |
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Research Paper
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Bhaskar, B.P., Prasad, J. and Tiwari, Gopal. 2017. Evaluation of agricultural land resources for irrigation in the cotton growing Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India. Journal of Applied and Natural Science 9(1):102- 113.
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English
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