Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t7czq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T19:39:29.892Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Effect of Gypsum Compared with that of Grasses on the Yield of Forage Crops on a Highly Sodic Soil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

Ashok Kumar
Ashok Kumar
Affiliation:
Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal-132001, India
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

A field experiment was conducted from 1979 to 1986 to compare the amelioration of a highly sodic soil by the application of gypsum compared with that achieved by growing Karnal or Para grass for between one and three years. After studies of the growth of rice and wheat on the experimental plots, the growth of four forage crops, less tolerant of sodic conditions, was studied between 1984 and 1986. The forage yields suggest that their order of tolerance to soil sodicity is Persian clover > Egyptian clover > teosinte > maize, the rabi (winter season) forage crops being more tolerant than the kharif (rainy season) ones.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 185 - 188
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Ashok, Kumar (1987a). Amelioration of highly akali soil by Karnal grass and Para grass before rice wheat sequence. International Rice Research Newsletter 12(3):43–44.Google Scholar
Ashok, Kumar (1987b). Relative performance of Egyptian and Persian clovers at different levels of gypsum application in a barren alkali soil. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 57:157–62.Google Scholar
Ashok, Kumar & Abrol, I. P. (1984). Studies on the reclaiming effect of Karnal grass and Para grass grown in a highly sodic soil. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 54:189–93.Google Scholar
Cheng, K. D. & Bray, R. H. (1951). Determination of calcium and magnesium in soil and plant material. Soil Science 72:449–58.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jackson, M. L. (1967). Soil Chemical Analysis. New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India.Google Scholar