Manjeet, Arushi Rana, Shresthi Jaiswal and Urvashi Bist
Abstract
India is an agro-based economy and the primary source of income comes from agriculture and related industries. Irrigation is one of the most important inputs for an efficient and sustainable agricultural production. The evaluation of agricultural suitability is essential for identifying which crops can be cultivated properly in a particular area as well as the methods and practices that must be used to have the maximum production and sustainability. Being an agro-based economy it is necessary to have a good quality of water for irrigation. About 89% Indiaââ¬â¢s groundwater is used for irrigation, 9% for residential use and 2% for irrigation purposes. This study was conducted to evaluate the Irrigation Suitability of Safidon tehsil in Jind District, Haryana. Total 76 samples were collected from the Safidon tehsil. The water samples were analysed for major cations: Na+, Ca2+, K+ and Mg2+. The Irrigational suitability will be calculated by using Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR), Magnesium Adsorption Ratio (MAR), Sodium Percent (Na %), Kelleyââ¬â¢s Ratio (KR), Electrical Conductivity (EC) and Soluble Sodium Percent (SSP). The values obtained from the study area show that 96% samples of SAR values came under excellent category and remaining 4% lies under good category, the value of EC lies between 605õS to 5540õS, the values of SSP shows that 64% were suitable and 36% were unsuitable, KR values shows that 64% samples were suitable and 36% were unsuitable and for MAR only 18% samples were suitable and 82% samples were unsuitable for irrigation purposes and these values shows the magnesium hazard in the study area, and Sodium Percent values lie between 17.20 to 79.15%.