Department of Soils, Haryana Agricultural University, Hissar, Haryana
*Present address: Department of Soils, Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, Hyderabad
Estimation of soil profile moisture under bare soil condition of a sandy-loam soil can be made accurately from a knowledge of the open pan evaporation. In the absence of a standard evaporimeter, use can be made of even a simple evaporimeter after calibration for recording evaporation.
Soil moisture estimation, pan evaporimeter, sandy loam soil
