Improvement of Salt Affected-Water Logged Soils in Western Maharashtra through Subsurface Drainage (Ssd) System

The subsurface drainage system was installed on farm with corrugated perforated PVC pipes on 8.81 ha of salt affected soils at Agril. Research station K. Digraj Dist-Sangli (M.S.) in December, 2002 to study the effect of subsurface drainage system for improvement of salt affected - waterlogged soils. The results revealed that the pH, ECe, SAR and ESP of soil in SSD with synthetic envelope, coarse sand filter and synthetic envelope + coarse sand filter were decreased in monsoon and winter season but slightly increased during the summer season. This indicates that the improvement in salt affected soils due to subsurface drainage and gypsum application within a period of one year.