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Impact of different land use systems on soil quality in northwest Himalayan region

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Title Impact of different land use systems on soil quality in northwest Himalayan region
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Creator D. Mandal
B.L. Dhyani,
Ambrish Kumar,
Charan Singh,
Bankey Bihari,
M. Muruganandam
M.Madhu
 
Subject Land use, Relative soil quality index (RSQI), Soil quality, Soil properties, Sustainable soil management
 
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The important soil quality indicators were investigated under different land use
systems namely, sal forest, agroforestry, rainfed cropland and irrigated cropland to
provide base line data for future research in lower north western Himalayan
region. The soil properties such as soil depth, texture, organic carbon, total N,
available P, available K, CEC and soil pH were investigated for each land use
system to assess relative soil quality index (RSQI).
The study revealed that there were significant differences in soil quality
parameters under different land use systems. The study further revealed that soil
quality index (SQI) values varied from 337 in sal forest to 257 in rainfed cropland
inDungakhet village indicating the superiority of forest land use system in terms
of maintaining greater SQI than other land-use systems. Similar trend was also
observed in the other site of the study area. Analysis of data on RSQI revealed that
the soil quality index for rainfed cropland was 23.74% lower in Dungakhet and
19.88% lower in Pasauli than the reference sal forest. In general, intensive tillage
practices have degraded most of the important soil quality indicators. Therefore,
reducing the intensive tillage practices and use of integrated inorganic and organic
fertilizers could replenish the degraded soil quality for sustainable agricultural
production in the study area.
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Date 2020-02-28T11:42:06Z
2020-02-28T11:42:06Z
2013-04-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/33453
 
Language English
 
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