What is it about?
The methodology used for land suitability evaluation was GIS-based multi-criteria evaluation following FAO (1976) guidelines involving matching diagnostic land qualities against crop requirements and assigning suitability rates for each land qualities. In addition to land evaluation, suitable crop interventions suggested for enhancing productivity of these crops under drought prone areas of Karnataka.
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Why is it important?
Soil survey and land evaluation helps better land use planning and management with realization of inherent potentials and constraints of biophysical factors in the region
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I hope this article shows the ways and means of increasing area under sorghum and redgram in drought prone gulburga district, Karnataka. How soil-crop data banks are useful in improving the agricultural economy and provide an opportunity to look into the reflective realties of droughts faced by farmers.
bhaskar PHANEENDRA
National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning
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This page is a summary of: Land Evaluation for Site Specific Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan) - Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) Management - A Case Study of Mormanchi Microwatershed, Gulbarga District, Karnataka, India, Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology, November 2017, Sciencedomain International,
DOI: 10.9734/cjast/2017/37455.
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