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Subject: Agricultural Meteorology × End date: 2004 × Start date: 2004 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Evapotranspiration studies on wheat (Triticum aestivum) and soybean (Glycine max) in a mollisol of tarai region of Uttaranchal
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2004-07) Sunil Kumar; Suman Kumar
    This study was conducted at the Crop Research Centre of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar for quantifying evapotranspiration losses of wheat and soybean under Uttaranchal tarai conditions and to select some suitable mathematical methods based on meteorological parameters for estimating wheat and soybean ET of this type of agroclimatic conditions. Evapotranspiration of wheat and soybean was measured with weighing type lysimeters. Data on pan evaporation measured with USWB class A pan evaporimeter and various wheat parameters for the corresponding period were collected from Meteorological Observatory. Evapotranspiration of wheat and soybean was also estimated by using mathematical methods of Thornthwaite, Turc, Stephens-Stewart, Jensen-Haise, Blaney-Criddle and Modified Penman. The relationship of measured ET with pan evaporation and ET estimated by different mathematical methods was studied by linear regression and simple correlation. It can be concluded that the evapotranspiration of wheat and soybean under tarai conditions is about 445.2 mm and 513.1 mm respectively. The average total rainfall during wheat and soybean season is 256.8 mm and 1187.9 mm respectively. Thus supplementary irrigation is required during wheat season due to low rainfall and also for soybean season during the years of low rainfall. As the Pan evaporation did not give accurate estimate of wheat and soybean ET, both on seasonal and as well as weekly basis. So Pan evaporation does not seem to be good criteria for ET estimation in wheat and soybean in this region and Modified Penman and Jensen-Haise methods are very suitable for estimation of ET in this tarai region of Uttaranchal.