Evaluation of agricultural land resources for irrigation in the cotton growing Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India
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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.
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Keywords
Land suitability evaluation, Parametric method, Soil series, Surface irrigation
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Benton Jones, J. Jr. (2001). Laboratory guide for conducting soil tests and plant analysis. CRC press LLC. Boca Raton, Florida.
Bhaskar, B. P.; Sarkar, Dipak; Bobade, S. V.; Gaikwad, S. S. and Anantwar, S. G. (2014a). Land evaluation for irrigation in cotton growing Yavatmal district, Maharashtra. International Journal of Research of Agricultural Sciences.1(2):128-136
Bhaskar, B.P., Dipak Sarkar, Bobde, S.V., Gaikwad, M.S., Gaikwad, S.S., Nimkar, A.M., Anantwar, S.G., Patil, S.V. and Bhattacharyya, T. (2011). Land evaluation for optimal land use plans in cotton growing Yavatmal district, Maharashtra. Ecoscan, special issue, 1: 251-9
Bhaskar, B.P., Gajbhiye, K.S. and Anantwar, S.G. (2002). Soil–site suitability evaluation for Irrigation in Minor-4 of Jayakwadi Command Area, Parbhani district, Maharashtra. National Seminar on “Droughts and Water resources”. IWRS, pp.128-35.
Bhaskar B.P., Dipak Sarkar, Mandal C., Bobade S.V., Gaikwad M.S., Gaikwad S.S. (2014). Reconnaissance soil survey of Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India. NBSS Publication. No.1059, NBSS&LUP, Nagpur. pp.208.
Bienvenue, J.S., Ngardeta, M. and Mamadou, K., (2003). Land Evaluation in the Province of Thies, Senegal. 23rd Course Professional Master. Geometric and Natural Resources Evaluation. 8th Nov, 2002-20 June, 2003. IAO, Florence, Italy. http://www.iao.florence. It/training/geomatics/Thies/senega l23.pdf.
Briza, Y., Dileonardo, F. and Spisni, A. (2001). Land Evaluation in the Province of Ben Slimane, Morocco. 21st Course Professional Master Remote Sensing and Natural Resource Evaluation. IAO, Florence, Italy. http://www.iao. Florence .it/training/geomatics/BenSlimane/Marocco 21.pdf.
Challa, O., Vadivelu, S., and Sehgal, J.L. (1995). Soils of Maharashtra for optimizing land use. NBSS Publication 54b.N.B.S.S.&L.U.P., Nagpur, India.
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Dengiz, O. (2006). Comparison of different Irrigation Methods Based on the Parametric evaluation approach. Turk .J. Agric. For., 30: 21-29.
Gardner, E A, Shaw R J, Smith G D and Coughlan K J. (1984). Plant available water capacity: concept, measurement and prediction. In: J McGarity, E H Hoult and H B So (eds), Properties and utilization of cracking clay soils. Reviews in Rural Science No. 5. University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. pp.164-175.
Geus, J.G.De. (1973). Fertilizer Guide for Tropics and Subtropics (2nd edition), Centre d’Etude de l’Azote, Zurich, pp 774.
Jackson, M.L. (1973). Soil chemical analysis. Prentice Hall of India. Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.
Kharche, V.K. and Pharande, A (2010). Land degradation assessment and land evaluation in Mula Command area of Irrigated agroecosystem of Maharashtra. Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science, 58(2), 221-27
Mandal, D K., Mandal, C. and Venugopalan, M.V. (2005). Suitability of cotton cultivation in shrink swell soils in central India. Agricultural Systems, 84, 55–75
Martínez Beltrán J. (1993). Soil survey and land evaluation for planning, design and management of irrigation districts. Etat de l'Agriculture en Méditerranée. Les sols dans la région méditerranéenne : utilisation, gestion et perspectives d'évolution . Zaragoza : CIHEAM, p. 179-194 (Cahiers Options Méditerranéennes; n. 1(2))
McGarry, D. and Chan, K.Y. (1984). Preliminary investigation of clay soils' behaviour under furrow irrigated cotton. Australian Journal of Soil Research, 22: 99-108
Mohammad, A., Saeed Boroom, N., Abd Ali, N. and Siroos, J. (2010). Comparison of Different Irrigation Methods Based on the Parametric method in the Plain West of Shush: Iran. Irrigation and Drainage, 59, 547-58
Mohan, S. and Arumugam, N. (1994) Crop coefficient of major crops in South India. Agric. Water Management, 26, 67-80
Rao, V.N., Rego, T.J. and Meyer, R.J.K. (1997). Balanced fertilizer use in black soils. Fertilizer News, 42(2), 35-5.
Reddy, R.S. (2006). Methodology for correlation of soil series in soil survey and mapping. Agropedology, 16, 1-11
Richards, E.A. (1954). Diagnosis and improvement of saline and alkaline soils. Agriculture Hand book No.60. United States Salinity Laboratory, USDA.
Sanchez, P.A., Palm, C.A. and Boul, S.W. (2003). Fertility capability soil classification: a tool to help assess soil quality in the tropics. Geoderma, 114, 157-85
Schafer, W.M. and Singer, M.J. (1976). A new method of measuring shrink-swell potential using soil paste. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. J., 40, 805-6
Schoeneberger, P J., Wysocki, D.A., Benham, E.C., and Borderson, W.D. (2002). Field book–Describing and Sampling Soils. version 2.NRSC, National Soil Survey Centre, Lincoln, NE.
Soil Survey Staff (2014). Keys to Soil Taxonomy. 12th edition. USDA/NRSC, Washington, DC.
Sys, C., Van Ranst, E., and Debaveye, J. (1991). Land evaluation, Part II. Methods in land evaluation. General administration for development cooperation, Brussels, pp: 247
Sys, C., van Ranst, E. and Debaveye, J. (1993). Land Evaluations, Part IIII: Principles in landevaluation and crop production calculation. General Administration for Development Cooperation, Brussels.
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Evaluation of agricultural land resources for irrigation in the cotton growing Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India. (2017). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 9(1), 102-113. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v9i1.1157
