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Pedotransfer Functions for Predicting Soil Hydraulic Properties in Semi-Arid Regions of Karnataka Plateau, India


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1 ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Regional Centre, Hebbal, Bengaluru 560 024, India
2 ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Amaravati Road, Nagpur 440 033, India
 

Soil hydraulic properties are important for irrigation scheduling and proper land-use planning. Field capacity, permanent wilting point and infiltration rate are the three vital hydraulic properties which determine the availability and retention of water for crop growth. These properties are difficult to measure and time-consuming, but can be easily predicted from the available information like soil texture, bulk density, organic carbon content, etc. through pedotransfer functions (PTFs). PTFs were developed for field capacity and permanent wilting point for two different regions of Karnataka, viz. Northern Karnataka Plateau (512 soil samples) and Southern Karnataka Plateau (228 soil samples), separately. PTF for infiltration rate was developed using 100 soil samples for the entire Karnataka. Cross-validation techniques were used to validate the PTFs, and the results are satisfactory with low RMSE and higher R2. The developed PTFs are useful in determining soil hydraulic properties of the semi-arid regions of southern India.

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Pedotransfer Functions, Field Capacity, Permanent Wilting Point, Infiltration Rate, Semi-Arid Regions.
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Authors

S. Dharumarajan
ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Regional Centre, Hebbal, Bengaluru 560 024, India
Rajendra Hegde
ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Regional Centre, Hebbal, Bengaluru 560 024, India
M. Lalitha
ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Regional Centre, Hebbal, Bengaluru 560 024, India
B. Kalaiselvi
ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Regional Centre, Hebbal, Bengaluru 560 024, India
S. K. Singh
ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Amaravati Road, Nagpur 440 033, India

Abstract


Soil hydraulic properties are important for irrigation scheduling and proper land-use planning. Field capacity, permanent wilting point and infiltration rate are the three vital hydraulic properties which determine the availability and retention of water for crop growth. These properties are difficult to measure and time-consuming, but can be easily predicted from the available information like soil texture, bulk density, organic carbon content, etc. through pedotransfer functions (PTFs). PTFs were developed for field capacity and permanent wilting point for two different regions of Karnataka, viz. Northern Karnataka Plateau (512 soil samples) and Southern Karnataka Plateau (228 soil samples), separately. PTF for infiltration rate was developed using 100 soil samples for the entire Karnataka. Cross-validation techniques were used to validate the PTFs, and the results are satisfactory with low RMSE and higher R2. The developed PTFs are useful in determining soil hydraulic properties of the semi-arid regions of southern India.

Keywords


Pedotransfer Functions, Field Capacity, Permanent Wilting Point, Infiltration Rate, Semi-Arid Regions.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv116%2Fi7%2F1237-1246