TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF LEVELLING INDICES AS INFLUENCED BY DIFFERENT LAND LEVELLING METHODS
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 31
Abstract
Land development is one of the prime components of precision farming. Unevenness of agricultural fields leads to the in-efficient use of irrigation water, which in turn reduces the yield and farm income. Levelling index, which is a dynamic factor, determines the quality and accuracy of land levelling. Therefore, it is imperative to study the temporal variability of levelling indices. A field experiment was conducted at two different duration viz., 2009-2010 and 2012-2013 in the research farms of UAS, Raichur, Karnataka state. The study was taken up during the year 2009-10 as first observation to find levelling index of the fields by different methods viz., the conventional levelling and the tractor operated laser guided land leveller. A comparative evaluation of the laser guided land leveller with the conventional system of levelling revealed that, the percentage reduction in standard deviation of reduced levels at grid points of 10X10 m with-in the field for before and after levelling was 85.7 % for laser levelling, and that of 46.79 % for the conventional method which was 38.91 % lower when compared with the laser levelling. The levelling indices before and after conventional levelling were 0.18 m and 0.10 m and the same for before and after laser levelling were 0.17 m and 0.02 m respectively. During the year 2012-13, the levelling indices of the fields levelled by conventional and laser levelling methods were 0.20 m and 0.07 m respectively. The standard deviation of reduced levels for fields levelled by conventional and laser levelling methods were 0.25 m and 0.08 m respectively. Though the temporal variability with respect to levelling indices was observed in both conventional and laser levelled fields, the lesser variations were found in laser levelled field.
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P. S. KANANNAVAR
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