EFFECT OF BASIN LISTING TECHNOLOGY FOR IN SITU MOISTURE CONSERVATION IN VERTISOLS

P.B. KADAM¹*, S.M. MATHUR², S.M. NALAWADE³, S.K. UPADHYE^4
1Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, 413722, Maharashtra, India
²Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
³Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, 413722, Maharashtra, India
⁴Department of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, 413722, Maharashtra, India
* Corresponding Author : pbkmpkv@gmail.com

Received : 05-06-2020     Accepted : 22-06-2020     Published : 30-06-2020
Volume : 12     Issue : 12       Pages : 9975 - 9977
Int J Agr Sci 12.12 (2020):9975-9977

Keywords : In situ moisture conservation, Basin listing technique
Academic Editor : Prof Bhau Gavit, Sagar Anand Pandey, Prof Bhau Gavit, Dr Bhawana Asnani, Dr K S Vinayaka, Choudhary G.l.
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, 413722, Maharashtra, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

One of the effective soil and water conservation practice is the preparation of basins in the field. The two adjacent side bunds running across the main slope are connected by cross bunds at regular intervals. Thus, the entire field is divided into number of basins. When rainfall occurs, the water is stored in the basins to infiltrate into the soil by preventing surface runoff. At the same times the loss of soil due to erosion is also prevented. At present the work of constructing basins is done manually which is laborious, time consuming and costly. In view of this the machine was developed which is operated by the tractor, which will form the side bunds and the cross bund simultaneously The tractor drawn basin lister is suitable to form a basin of 6 x 2 m size in dry land agriculture for in situ moisture conservation. The developed machine was evaluated for the in situ moisture conservation in the vertisols at Solapur (Maharashtra, India). The observation shows that the average soil moisture for the weekly interval at 0-15 cm soil depth for basin listing and flatbed are 29.10 % and 26.43 % respectively and the average soil moisture for the weekly interval at 15-30 cm soil for basin listing and flatbed was 33.69 % and 30.46 % respectively. The basin technology increased soil moisture by 10.12% over flatbed method with a coefficient of variation of 28.75 % at 0-15 cm soil depth whereas at 15-30 cm soil depth the soil moisture was increased by 10.61 %. This indicates that in-situ moisture conservation measures are effective to increase soil moisture compared to flatbed method.

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