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Augmenting crop production through rain water harvesting and recycling in red soils of Central India

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Title Augmenting crop production through rain water harvesting and recycling in red soils of Central India
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Creator Dev Narayan
H. Biswas
 
Subject Indian mustard, Rain water harvesting and recycling, Soybean, Supplemental irrigation, Toria, Water use efficiency
 
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A field experiment was conducted during 2002-03 to 2005-2006 in red soils to
explore the possibilities of rain water harvesting and providing supplemental
irrigation to soybean, toria and Indian mustard for augmenting the growth, yield
and water use efficiency under the situation where underground water availability
is not there and crops are grown under rainfed conditions. Results showed that, in
general, harvested rain water in farm pond was available for irrigation from middle
of July to first week of November during all the years. Growth and yield attributes
of soybean, toria and Indian mustard increased with supplemental irrigation which
in turn increased the yield of the crops during all the years. Mean yield in terms of
soybean equivalent yield increased by 40% in soybean and 181% in toria with one
supplemental irrigation given at pod filling and 30 days after sowing, respectively,
over control (no irrigation). Yield of Indian mustard increased by 130% with presowing
irrigation, and by 412% with pre-sowing + irrigation at branching stage,
over control (no irrigation). In general, the water use efficiency of all the crops
increased with supplemental irrigation. The water use efficiency of soybean and
toria increased by 25.6 and 72.6% with supplemental irrigation at pod filling and at
30 days after sowing, respectively, over control. The water use efficiency of Indian
mustard also increased by 55.2 and 54.9% with pre-sowing and pre-sowing +
irrigation at branching stage, respectively, over control. Study suggested that rain
water harvesting and recycling through a farm pond can successfully be practiced
on red soils for providing supplemental irrigation to some of selective crops such
as soybean during dry spells in monsoon season, further, available water in the
pond can also be utilized for providing pre-sowing/supplemental irrigation to post
monsoon/rabi season low water requiring oil seed crops such as toria and Indian
mustard for increasing the growth, yield and water use efficiency in order to
augment the productivity of large rain fed areas in semi-arid regions in the country.
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Date 2020-02-26T06:36:49Z
2020-02-26T06:36:49Z
2012-03-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/33377
 
Language English
 
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