: An experiment was conducted at farm of Krishi Vigyan Kendra-Ambala to assess the impact of different planting methods of sugarcane i.e. planting methods viz., T 1 -conventional planting (60 cm row spacing), T 2 -paired row trench plantation method (60:120 cm spacing) and T 3 -paired row ridge and furrow plantation method (100:120 cm spacing) on cane yield, water productivity and economics. The cane yield in conventional planting (T 1 ) was 77.53 t ha -1 , 82.50 t ha -1 in paired row trench plantation technique (T 2 ), and 86.20 t ha -1 in paired row ridge and furrow plantation technique (T 3 ), which was significantly higher in T 3 than in (T 1 ) and (T 2 ). The water productivity was 2.82 in T 1 , 3.37 in T 2 and 3.79 in T 3 , respectively. The gross return in farmer practice, paired row trench and modified paired row plantation method was 175150.00 Rs. ha -1 , 186450 and 194812 Rs. ha -1 , respectively. Simultaneously, the BCR was high in paired row trench plantation (2.70) and paired row ridge and furrow plantation method (2.90) than 2.30 in conventional planting. KEY WORDS :Sugarcane planting methods, Yield, Water productivity, Economics HOW TO CITE THIS PAPER : Prem, Guru, Kumar, Ramesh, Singh, Vikram D., Kumar, Amit, Choudhary, Rakesh and Ahmad, Afzal (2017). Effect of planting methods on cane yield, water productivity and economics of spring planted sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) in Ambala (Haryana). Internat. J. Agric. Engg., 10(1) : 186-190,

SummaryThe current study was carried out to assess the GIS map-based soil fertility evaluation with regard to traditional soil testing in the Ambala. This study presents the soil spatial variability maps for soil pH, electrical conductivity, organic carbon, available N, P, K, S, Zn, B, Fe, Mn and Cu. Soil samples were collected during Rabi season of year 2015. Nearly 70 per cent samples had pH between 6.8 and 8.2. The electrical conductivity (EC) varied from 0.10 to 0.98 dS m -1 with an average value of 0.39 dS m -1 . The organic carbon (OC) in these soils ranged between 0.2 and 0.59 per cent with an average value of 0.37 per cent, the distribution of OC was 58, 42 and 0 per cent, respectively as low, medium and high rating. All the soil samples tested were found to be deficient in N. Only 18 per cent soil samples were deficient in available P, while 62 and 20 per cent samples had medium to high P status. Eighteen (18) per cent samples were found to be low, whereas 74 per cent samples were medium and remaining 10 per cent samples tested high in available K status. 28 per cent samples fell under low status and 40 per cent samples were medium and 32 per cent samples were in high S status. Majority of the soil (96%) samples were having low status of B. 14.00 per cent samples fell under medium status, 6.00 per cent samples were normal and 80.00 per cent samples were high in Zn status. All the soils had sufficient amount of Fe and Cu.

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