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Effect of irrigation water quality on the yield of pearlmillet

, (Pennisetum glaucum)

L. G. K. NAIDU1,G. S. SIDHU, K. P. C. RANA mm C. B. SACHDEV

National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land-use Planning, MI Campus, New Delhi 110 012

Received: February 1992

Most of the subsoil waters (55-60%), Therefore, a field experiment was taken up especially in Western and Southern parts of on fanner's field to study differential effects Haryana, are brackish with poor quality. Use of sodic and saline irrigation water. of sodic water for life-saving imgation of Two crop demonstrations were laid on crop is the common practice in pearlmillet fanners' fields during the rainy season 1989 [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R Br. emend. in Sannathala village, in Gurgaon district Stuntz] with variable success of cmp during under Agro-technology Transfer drought years. Manchanda et al. (1988) Programme. The demonstration sites studied the effects of sodic water on pearl- represented Karna soil series in Mewat millet and advocated technology for safer Region. Physico-chemical properties of soil use. Information on relative detrimental are presented in Table 1. Soil samples effects of sodic and saline irrigation water on (surface) were collected from 2 experimental grain yield of pearl~nillet under similar soil sites, analysed for pH, electrical and agronomic management is limited. conductivity and organic carbon and the

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