Evaluation of in-situ Soil and Water Conservation Treatments on the Performance of Acid lime (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle) on Vertisols


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Authors

  • P Panigrahi Scientist (S&WCE), National Research Centre For Citrus, P.O: Shankar Nagar, Nagpur, Maharastra
  • a K Srivastava Senior scientist (Soil Science), National Research Centre For Citrus, P.O: Shankar Nagar, Nagpur, Maharastra
  • A D Huchche Senior scientist (Horticulture), National Research Centre For Citrus, P.O: Shankar Nagar, Nagpur, Maharastra

Abstract

Different in-situ soil and water conservation treatments consisting of continuous trenching, continuous bunding, staggered trenching between the rows and control (without any soil and water conservation treatment) were evaluated during 2003-04 in 11 years old acid lime orchard at Nagpur. All the conservation treatments were effective in checking loss of runoff, soil and nutrients, which resulted in a favourable response of the plants in terms of better growth, fruit yield and quality, compared to those under the control. The treatment, continuous trenching produced the best response conserving 38% runoff, 32.28% soil loss, 32.44%N, 27.67% P, and 28.95% K over control, besides 18% higher fruit yield.

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Submitted

2012-01-10

Published

2005-06-15

Issue

Vol. 42 No. 2 (2005)

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Research Note

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Panigrahi, P., Srivastava, a K., & Huchche, A. D. (2005). Evaluation of in-situ Soil and Water Conservation Treatments on the Performance of Acid lime (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle) on Vertisols. Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 42(2). https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/JAE/article/view/14301