ESTIMATION OF SOIL EROSION CAUSED BY SURFACE RUNOFF USING DAS OPERATING TECHNIQUE IN BUNDELKHAND REGION

K.N. SINGH¹*, R. SINGH², D. KHALKHO³, A.K. SINGH^4
1Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, 492012, Chhattisgarh, India
²Principal Scientist, ICAR-Central Agroforestry Research Institute, Jhansi, 284003, Uttar Pradesh, India
³Sr. Scientist, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, 492012, Chhattisgarh, India
⁴Scientific Officer, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, 502324, India
* Corresponding Author : knidhansingh@gmail.com

Received : 31-03-2019     Accepted : 12-04-2019     Published : 15-04-2019
Volume : 11     Issue : 7       Pages : 8183 - 8185
Int J Agr Sci 11.7 (2019):8183-8185

Keywords : Rainfall, Runoff, DAS system, Pressures (Water and Atmospheric) and Soil erosion
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Parasai Sindh Watershed, Bundelkhand Region, Jhansi, India. Authors are also thankful to Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, 492012, Chhattisgarh
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

Agriculture is an important part of India’s economy and at present it is among the top farm produces in the world. This sector provides approximately 52 percent of the total number of jobs available in India and contributes around 17-18 percent to the GDP. For maximum growth of food production, nutritional soil and water plays a vital role. But due to soil texture and its structure erosion is a major problem which reduced the soil nutrient and its fertile property. An area of over 80 million hectares or about one-fourth of total area is exposed to wind and water erosion out of which 40 million hectares of land has undergone serious erosion. The loss due to water erosion is 53.34 million hectares annually (ICAR). The present work has attempts to emanate the runoff and soil erosion based on DAS technique for controlling the erosion and its treatment for enhancing crop production and availability the ground water recharge for livelihood and other ecosystem activities.

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