Original Articles
V. V. Navarkhele
Abstract
This paper describes the measurement of on field soil properties for jawar crop. The measured properties are soil water content, resistivity, conductivity, PH and total dissolved solids. Few more properties like texture, gravimetric water content, volumetric water content, soil melting capacity, bulk density, porosity, water holding capacity and chemical compositions were determined in laboratory, after air drying the soil samples collected from the same locations. This study has been carried out at the test location as it comes under low rain area. So this location was used to study the effect of water content on physical - chemical properties of the soil and its effect on the jawar yield. The profile probe PR2 and an indigenously developed resistance meter was used to measure the soil water content and the resistivity respectively. The experimental observations shows that the on- field soil water content for the jawar crop should be in the range of 19 to 35 percent cm3cm-3. From the resistivity measurements