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Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur

Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya (renamed as Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya in June, 2001) was established on 1st November, 1978.The College of Agriculture (established in May, 1966) formed the nucleus of the new farm University. It is ICAR accredited and ISO 9001:2015 certified institution. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research has ranked this University at eleventh place among all farm universities of the country. The University has been given the mandate for making provision for imparting education in agriculture and other allied branches of learning, furthering the advancement of learning and prosecution of research and undertaking extension of such sciences, especially to the rural people of Himachal Pradesh. Over the years, this University has contributed significantly in transforming the farm scenario of Himachal Pradesh. It has developed human resources, varieties and technologies and transferred these to farming community enabling the State to receive the “Krishikarman award” of Govt. of India four times in row for food grain production among small states of the country. Today, the State has earned its name for hill agricultural diversification and the farming community has imposed its faith in the University.

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Subject: Soil Sciences × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2017 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    EFFECT OF DRIP IRRIGATION AND FERTIGATION ON YIELD AND QUALITY OF STRAWBERRY UNDER PROTECTED CULTIVATION
    (CSHHPKV Palampur, 2017-06) JASWAL, RICHA; Sandal, Sanjeev K.
    The present study was conducted at experimental farm of CSK HPKV, Palampur, during the year 2015-16 with the objectives of evaluating the effects of drip irrigation and NK fertigation levels on soil water retention and transmission, plant water, water use efficiency, growth, productivity, quality and nutrient uptake of strawberry under protected condition. The treatments comprised of, (a) Three drip irrigation levels, DI0.6 (Daily drip irrigation at 60 per cent of open pan evaporation), DI0.8 (Daily drip irrigation at 80 per cent of open pan evaporation) and DI1.0 (Daily drip irrigation at 100 per cent of open pan evaporation), (b) Three NK fertigation levels viz., NK50 (50 per cent of RDF of which 25 per cent applied as basal and rest 75 per cent through fertigation at weekly interval), NK75 (75 per cent of RDF of which 25 per cent applied as basal and rest 75 per cent through fertigation at weekly interval) and NK100 (100 per cent of RDF of which 25 per cent applied as basal and rest 75 per cent through fertigation at weekly interval) and (c) Control (C)- 100 per cent RDF applied through conventional method (1/2 N and full PK as basal and remaining 1/2 N in equal split at monthly intervals) with drip irrigation at 1.0 PE. The strawberry cv. Chandler was transplanted on October 03, 2015. The results indicated that DI1.0 and DI0.8 treatment had higher soil water content, soil water stock, profile water recharge in comparison to DI0.6. The DI1.0 treatment due to favorable soil moisture regimes led to higher relative leaf water content and TSS content and NPK uptake while WUE and vitamin C were higher in DI0.6. In case of different NK fertigation treatment, NK100 and NK75 had higher root growth, leaf area index, WUE, FEE, fruit length, breadth and weight, TSS content and higher marketable yield as compared to NK50 treatment. The study concluded that fertigation application of 100 per cent RDF at 0.6 PE level resulted in higher water use efficiency and saving irrigation water. However, the maximum marketable yield, gross and net returns and highest B:C ratio was obtained with DI0.8 NK100.
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    STUDIES ON INFLUENCE OF CROPPING SYSTEMS ON SOIL PROPERTIES
    (CSKHPKV. Palampur, 2019-07-22) DHIMAN, SHUBHAM; Datt, Naveen
    A field experiment was conducted during the years 2017-18 at Bhadiarkhar farm, Department of Agronomy, Forages and Grassland Management, CSKHPKV, Palampur to evaluate effect of eight cropping systems viz. rice-wheat, rice-peasummer squash, okra-radish-onion, turmeric-pea-summer squash, rice-lettucepotato+coriander, rice-palak-cucumber, rice-broccoli-radish and colocasiapea+coriander on various soil properties and productivity. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design and was replicated four times. The soil of experiment site was silty clay loam in texture, acidic in reaction (5.3), medium in available nitrogen (362.4 kg ha-1), high in available phosphorus (73.6 kg ha-1) and medium in available potassium (115.2 kg ha-1). Study of one year revealed that rice-pea-summer squash resulted in higher microbial population, microbial biomass carbon and dehydrogenase activity. Higher available K and lower bulk density were recorded in turmeric-pea-summer squash. Colocasia-pea+coriander resulted in higher available N and DTPA-Fe. Better available phosphorus and phosphatase activity were recorded in rice-palak-cucumber. Rice-palak-cucumber cropping system resulted in the highest rice grain equivalent yield (16,477 kg ha-1) compared to the traditional rice-wheat system. Maximum returns (Rs 2,19,828), benefit cost ratio (1.76) and productivity (63.6 kg ha-1 day-1) were also recorded from this system. The yield was significantly and positively correlated with available nitrogen, DTPA-Fe, microbial population, microbial biomass carbon and dehydrogenase activity. Therefore, farmers should substitute existing rice-wheat cropping system with rice-based vegetable systems for improved soil properties, productivity and returns.