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Effect of supplemental irrigation on yield and water productivity of dry season crops in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

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Title Effect of supplemental irrigation on yield and water productivity of dry season crops in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
 
Creator RAJA, R
RAVISANKAR, N
CHAUDHURI, S GHOSHAL
AMBAST, S K
CHAND, SUBHASH
DIN, M
MEENA, BABULAL
SUBRAMANI, T
AHMED, ZAMIR
 
Subject Chilies; Dry season crops; Greengram; Maize; Okra; Sesame; Supplemental irrigation;Water productivity
 
Description Field experiments were conducted with different supplemental irrigation levels for growing maize, greengram, sesame, okra and chilies during the dry season of 2006–07 and 2007–08 in A & N Islands. The results indicated that though the yields achieved with supplemental irrigation has not achieved at par with that of farmers, practice (I ) of irrigating the crop as and when required (4 160 and 10 398 kg/ha during 2006–07 and 2007–08 respectively), it has increased the yield significantly in both the years vis-à-vis I i e, no irrigation (1 355 and 5 640 kg/ha during 2006–07 and 2007–08 respectively). The percent yield increase over I 0 0 when supplemental irrigation was provided one (I 1 ), two (I 2 5 ), three(I ) times due to supplemental irrigation was 48, 95, 133 and 178 in I 1 , I 2 , I 3 and I 4 3 9 ) and four (I during 2006–07 and 13, 27, 53, 62 in I and I during 2007–08 respectively. Thus by providing supplemental irrigation at different critical crop growth stages, higher yield and economic returns were achieved with lesser irrigation water usage, an important consideration for raising dry season crops in the rice fallows from the harvested rainwater of rainy season under Island conditions. However, the results also underlined the fact that cultivation of vegetables like okra and chillies on residual soil moisture alone without irrigation during dry season in the islands may be riskier and result in economic loss if the rainf all during the cropping period is very low
 
Publisher The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
 
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Date 2012-02-06
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/15277
 
Source The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 82, No 2 (2012)
0019-5022
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/15277/7661
 
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