Soil-Site Suitability Evaluation for Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) In Western Saurashtra Region of Gujarat, India

Meena, Rang Lal; Verma, Thakur Prasad; Singh, R. B.; Tailor, B. L.; Singh, Sukhveer

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2017.610.362

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“…The soil series VRT2, VRT9 and VRT10 were not suitable with very severe limitations of soil pH and low organic carbon. Similar results were observed by Leelavathiet al (2010) and Meena et al (2017).…”

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Land suitability for major crops in Varathuru watershed in Andhra Pradesh using RS and GIS

Leelavathy¹,

Naidu²,

Krishna³

et al. 2023

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Agriculture is a dominant sector in Andhra Pradesh. It contributes 34 percent to the Gross domestic production, employs nearly 55 percent of the total labour force and generates the bulk of market exchange. Poor performance of the agricultural sector in relation to the fast-growing population, intensification of agriculture is the critical aim of the study to find land suitability for major crops of Varathuru watershed using remote sensing and GIS techniques. The objective is to assess the land suitability for major crops based on soil characteristics of Varathuru watershed. The depth-wise soil characteristics at soil series level used to arrive at site-soil characteristics for assessing crop suitability.The site-soil properties of soil series from the study area were matched with soil site suitability criteria for groundnut, redgram, sugarcane and rice crops that are grown in Varathuru watershed area and maps were generated by using ArcGIS V 10.3. Fifteen (15) soil mapping units at phase level were identified and were mapped into ten (10) soil series. The soil series VRT3 was highly suitable for growing groundnut, VRT1, VRT4, VRT5 and VRT8 soil series were moderately suitable for growing groundnut crop. VRT1, VRT3, VRT4, VRT5, VRT6, VRT7 and VRT8 soil series were moderately suitable for growing of redgram and VRT2 and VRT9 series were marginally suitable for growing of redgram crop. VRT1, VRT3, VRT4, VRT5 and VRT8 soil series were moderately suitable and VRT2, VRT6 and VRT7 soil series were marginally suitable for sugarcane growing. Whereas the soils of study area were not suitable for growing of rice crop.

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confidence: 91%

Land suitability for major crops in Varathuru watershed in Andhra Pradesh using RS and GIS

Leelavathy¹,

Naidu²,

Krishna³

et al. 2023

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“…(Bui tan Yen et al 2013;Bhaskar et al 2015).The soil -site suitability for ground nut production was used for small holder farmers in Chisamba district Zambia (Chirwa et al 2016) and in periurban Niayeszone Senegal (Diallo et al 2016) with limitations of soil acidity and soil fertility where as soil moisture retention capacity, nutrient availability and nutrient retention were critical factors to the management of groundnut in Haplustalfs of Nigeria (Maniyunda et al 2014, Ahukaemere et al 2015. In India, soil suitability assessment made in different landforms of Meghal command area of Southern Saurashtra, Gujarat state and reported the biophysical constraints of shallow depth, poor fertility, bulk density and low saturated hydraulic conductivity (Savalia and Gundalia, 2009;Gundalia, 2010, Patel et al, 2012;Selvaraj and Naidu, 2012;) and high pH and , saline/sodic soils in Western Saurashtra region of Gujarat (Meena et al 2017). Attempts were made in application of fertility capability classification(FCC) in conjunction with socio -economic considerations to enhance small holder farmers in Bayelsa state (Dickson et al 2002) and land capability approach in economic evaluation and cost -benefit analysis with respect to agriculture in Mahadayi river, Karnataka (Thawale et al 2014).…”

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Land evaluation for groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) production in Pulivendula tehsil, Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh, India

Hegde¹,

Bhaskar²,

Niranjana³

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The land evaluation for enhancing ground nut (Arachis hypogaea L.) production in Pulivendula tehsil, Kadapa district was carried out as per FAO approach using soil map with 43 mapping units generated on 1:25000 scale and GIS technology to build thematic maps of suitable land units for peanut production with agroeconomic analysis. The land suitability analysis showed that 42.08 per cent of total cropped area is moderately suitable over current area of 14.8 per cent. with limitation of salinity, rooting depth, surface stoniness, gravelliness and soil texture. The economic evaluation for each soil mapping unit showed that only Pulivendula series has recorded benefit cost ratio more than 2 but in others this ratio is less 1.Results of landuse analysis suggested that participatory and bottom-up approaches are needed to understand the problems and opportunities in household agricultural production in order to develop appropriate landuse plans.

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Soil-Site Suitability Evaluation for Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) In Western Saurashtra Region of Gujarat, India

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Land suitability for major crops in Varathuru watershed in Andhra Pradesh using RS and GIS

Land suitability for major crops in Varathuru watershed in Andhra Pradesh using RS and GIS

Land evaluation for groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) production in Pulivendula tehsil, Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh, India

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