Management of Sodic Water for Radish Seed Production and their Effect on Chemical Properties of Soil

Author: Desh Raj Choudhary*, Avtar Singh, V.P.S. Panghal, Vikash Kumar, Vikram and Surgyan Rundla

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Abstract

Irrigation water is one of the most critical and scarce resource for vegetable production in arid and semiarid regions of India. The lack of good quality water supply for irrigation is now becoming a major issue that forcing the farmers to use low quality water. Keeping view, a field trial was conducted for two years at Research Field of the Department of Vegetable Science, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. The experiment consisted of three levels of farmyard manure (0, 10 and 20 t/ha) and gypsum (0, 50 and 100% neutralization of RSC water with gypsum) laid out in factorial RBD with three replications. The application of farmyard manure and gypsum individually and in combination significantly influenced the soil pH, electrical conductivity, exchangeable sodium percentage at harvest time, and seed yield per plant and per hectare of radish crop. The treatment where farmyard manure was applied at the rate of 20 t/ha in combination with 100% neutralization of RSC water through gy

Keywords

Radish, Seed yield, pH, EC, ESP, FYM, Gypsum, Sodic water.

Conclusion

Thus, it is concluded that F2G2 treatment combination where farmyard manure was applied at the rate of 20 t/ha along with 100% neutralization of residual sodium carbonate water through gypsum is effective in increased the seed yield of radish and improved soil pH, Electrical conductivity (EC), Exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) during both of the years of 2017-18 and 2018-19.

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Desh Raj Choudhary, Avtar Singh, V.P.S. Panghal, Vikash Kumar, Vikram and Surgyan Rundla (2022). Management of Sodic Water for Radish Seed Production and their Effect on Chemical Properties of Soil. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 14(1): 16