Indian Journal of Soil Conservation

  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 38
  • Issue: 2

Soil moisture based crop planning for farmers' land - A case study from Silai subwatershed of West Bengal

  • Author:
  • Tapati Banerjee1, D. Dutta2, Deepak Sarkar3, Debabrata Das1
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 89 to 93

1NBSS & LUP, Regional Centre, Block-DK, Sector-II, Salt Lake, Kolkata- 700 091.

2NBSS & LUP, NER Centre, Jorhat - 785 004.

3NBSS & LUP, Amaravati Road, Nagpur-440010.

Abstract

Soil moisture studies were done in farmers' land of Silai subwatershed for better crop planning. The watershed lies in rainfed area and monocrop is practiced which can be changed by introducing some other crops using residual soil moisture. Based on soil profile moisture in different landforms length of growing period was calculated as 145–155 days, 150–160 days, 155–165 days and 170–180 days in tanr, baid, kanali and bahal lands respectively. Accordingly the crop planning has been suggested with suitable varieties in the respective landforms.

Keywords

Crop planning, Farmers' land, Growing period, Soil moisture