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| Appraisal of Natural Resource Database for Alternate Agricultural Land Use at Village Level Under Saline Environment-A Case Study from Sagar Island, India |
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A. Seal,
R. Bera,
K.D. Sah,
D. Sarkar,
A.K. Chatterjee,
P. Bhattacharyya,
K. Kim and S.H. Kim |
Abstract:
The study deals with village level land use planning
for Sagar Island, West Bengal, India; conceived through the integration
of various factors like available land and water resources as well as
socio-economic factors viz. land holding sizes, social obligation and
economic conditions of farmers. The study was conducted during the period
2002 to 2005, in Jeebantala village of Sagar block (South 24 Parganas
district of West Bengal) which lies in between 88 °0737.2 and 88 °0831.2
E longitudes and 22 °4138.4 and 22 °4235.4 N latitudes covering
an area of 146.42 ha. Four soil series identified through detailed soil
survey were classified as Inceptisols and Entisols. They were evaluated
for land capability classification and soil site suitability for rice,
potato, sunflower, chilli, grass pea and fodder grass (Dinanath). Socio-economic
study of the area revealed that marginal (<1 ha) group dominated the
farming community sharing 77.25% of total population. Based on soil-site
suitability evaluation of different crops, results obtained from crop
experiments and constraints perceived by different group of farmers, various
rice based crop sequences were formulated. Rainfed rice-chilli and rainfed
rice-sunflower were suggested for saline soils where as rainfed rice-potato
and rainfed rice-grasspea were suggested for non-saline soils.
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How to cite this article:
A. Seal, R. Bera, K.D. Sah, D. Sarkar, A.K. Chatterjee, P. Bhattacharyya, K. Kim and S.H. Kim, 2008. Appraisal of Natural Resource Database for Alternate Agricultural Land Use at Village Level Under Saline Environment-A Case Study from Sagar Island, India. International Journal of Agricultural Research, 3: 121-130.
DOI: 10.3923/ijar.2008.121.130
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ijar.2008.121.130
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