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Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda

Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda has been established as a full-fledged State University, having unique honour of being the “First Agricultural University of Bundelkhand Region”. The University was notified vide Government Order No. 301/79-V-1-10-1 (Ka) 27-2009 Lucknow and established on 2nd March 2010 under Uttar Pradesh Agriculture University Act (Sanshodhan) 1958 Gazette-Adhiniyam 2010. Initially it was named as “Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda”, which was changed as “Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda” vide Uttar Pradesh Agriculture University Act (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam, 2014, No. 1528(2)/LXXIX-V-1-14-1(Ka)-13-2014 dated 4th December 2014. The University has been established for the development of the agriculture and allied sectors in the Uttar Pradesh on the whole and Bundelkhand region in particular. It is committed to serve the Bundelkhand region with trinity concept, i.e. complete integration of teaching, research and extension for the development of agriculture and allied sectors in order to ensure food security and enhance socio-economic status of inhabitants. State Government of Uttar Pradesh has assigned the University with the responsibilities of (a) human resource generation and development, (b) generation and perfection of technologies, and (c) their dissemination to the farmers, orchardists and dairy farmers in the Chitrakoot Dham and Jhansi divisions. The Chirtrkoot Dham Division consists of four districts, namely Banda, Chitrakoot (Karvi), Mahoba and Hamirpur whereas Jhansi Division consists of Jhansi, Lalitpur and Jalaun (Orai) districts.

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Subject: Soil Science and Agriculture Chemistry × Author: Richa Raghuvanshi × Start date: 2022 ×
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    SOIL CARBON POOLS UNDER PROMINENT LAND USE PATTERNS OF BANDA
    (Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda, Uttar Pradesh (India) 210001, 2023-08-11) Richa Raghuvanshi; Jagannath Pathak
    Land use pattern plays a significant bearing on soil organic carbon pools and its physicochemical properties, there distribution and transformation by providing different environmental condition to the soil. Declining soil organic carbon content in the studied area poses a threat to the long term sustainability, productivity and health of soil. Therefore the importance was felt to study the effect of different land use patterns on soil carbon and therefore the present study was conducted in order to promote the best suitable land use pattern. Depth wise soil samples were collected from three depth up to 45 cm (at an interval of 15 cm). the soil samples collected were analyzed for various soil organic carbon pools and its physico-chemical properties at department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, BUAT, Banda. Results from the present study revealed that with more sand content the soils were Sandy clay loam to Clay loam in texture. Soil was alkaline in reaction and non-saline in nature. Among all the studied land use patterns Horticultural land use pattern recorded higher TC, TOC, WBC,VLC, LC, LLC, NLC, PmOC, WSC, MBC when values were averaged from all the three depths. With oxidizable organic carbon fractions following the order NLC (0.32 % > VLC (0.238 %) > LC (0.157 %) > LLC (0.156 %). PmOC under various land use patterns ranged from 545.72 to 874.94 mg kg-1 and MBC ranged from 151.67 to 417.41 mg kg-1 . Relating to the sand content the instantaneous soil moisture loss was found to be higher in Agricultural and Agroforestry land use patterns form 0-15 cm depth which followed the 5th order scatter and the loss was minimum from Horticultural land use pattern. Therefore in essence it could be concluded that the out of all the studied land use patterns Horticultural land use pattern performed the best because it was a more than 50 year old orchard returning more organic residue to the soil and helping in carbon build up.