Effect of Saline vis-a-vis Canal Water on Performance of Different Brinjal Genotypes in Loamy Sand Alluvial Soil of Punjab, India.
Brinjal genotype performance under saline groundwater irrigation
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Brijesh Kumar Yadav
Punjab Agricultural University, Regional Research Station, Bathinda-151 001, Punjab, India
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Naveen Garg
Department of Vegetable Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana – 141004
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A S Dhatt
Department of Vegetable Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana – 141004
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M K Sidhu
Department of Vegetable Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana – 141004
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R L Meena
Project Coordinating Unit, AICRP- SAS&USW, ICAR-CSSRI, Karnal, Haryana-132001
Keywords:
Saline water, Brinjal genotypes, Fruit yield, Nutrient content, Soil enzymes, Soil nutrientsAbstract
A two year experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of different brinjal genotypes under saline groundwater (EC = 4.35 dS m-1) in a loamy sand alluvial soil of south-western Punjab. It was observed that the soil dehydrogenase, acid phosphatase and alkaline phosphatase activity was decreased by 9%, 12% and 18%, respectively, and soil pH1:2, EC1:2, available P and K were higher by 10%, 143%, 6% and 3%, respectively, in soil irrigated with saline groundwater as compared to canal water irrigation. Similarly, the mean numbers of fruits per plant, fruit yield per plant and fruit weight over all genotypes was also 28%, 17% and 24% higher with saline water irrigation. Further, the saline groundwater irrigated plants contained higher nutrient content in leaves and fruits. The leaves from saline groundwater irrigated plants had 6%, 9%, 10% and 10% higher P, Ca, Na and K than those from canal groundwater irrigated plants, whereas, the corresponding increase in fruits was 5%, 6%, 8% and 9%. It was concluded that irrigation with saline groundwater (EC = 4.35 dS m-1) exerts positive effect on plant growth, yield and its contributing traits of most of the brinjal genotypes in a well-drained and low fertility loamy sand alluvial soil due to higher nutrient availability. The maximum yield was recorded by genotype PBS (203 kg ha-1) followed by PBL-215 (152 kg ha-1) in the year 2018 and KBSR-343-1 (426 kg ha-1) followed by BL-2013-4-3-1 (358 kg ha-1) in the year 2019 under saline groundwater irrigation during the study.
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