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Assessment of Land Suitability of Bilalgodu Micro-Watershed, Chikkamagaluru District, Karnataka for Optimal Agriculture Use Planning

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Title Assessment of Land Suitability of Bilalgodu Micro-Watershed, Chikkamagaluru District, Karnataka for Optimal Agriculture Use Planning
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Creator B. Kalaiselvi, Rajendra Hegde, R. Vasundhara, S. Dharmarajan and S.K. Singh
 
Subject Inventorization, land suitability, watershed, topography, gravelliness
 
Description Sub project of Sujala III
Detailed soil resource inventorization was carried out at 1:7,920 scale in Bilalgodu micro-
watershed, Mudigere taluk, Chikkamagaluru district with an objective to assess the land

suitability for various crops in the watershed. The soils of Bilalgodu micro-watershed are
characterised and classified into 5 soil series comprising of 30 mapping units. The soil site
characteristics and climatic factors were evaluated for its suitability for major existing
crops of the location viz., coffee, arecanut, coconut and rice. Nearly 88 % soils of the
micro-watershed are highly suitable for coffee cultivation and remaining 12 % are
moderately suitable with gravelliness limitations (35-60%). Coconut is moderately suitable
for 95 % area of micro-watershed with the constraints of erosion and gravelliness. Though
arecanut crop is occupying more cultivated area, the suitability is only marginal due to the
limitations of slope and erosion. In lowland soil (S5 series), rice is the predominantly
cultivated field crop in the watershed which is moderately suitable (8 % TGA). Rice is not
suitable (N) for other soils except lowland soils mainly because of topography limitation
(l). Overall, Coffee is the highly suitable crop for Bilalgodu micro-watershed representing
Malnad region of Chikkamagaluru district, Karnataka.
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Date 2020-05-20T02:32:05Z
2020-05-20T02:32:05Z
2017-11-11
 
Type Article
 
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Language English
 
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Publisher Excellent publishers