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Land Resources Evaluation and Drainage Network Analysis of Watershed for Site Specific Crop Planning Using GIS


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1 ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibers, Barrrackpore 700 121, India
2 ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, India
3 NRM Division, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi 110 012, India
 

To meet the demand of food, fodder, fuel and fibre for the ever-increasing population of the world, achieving higher land and water productivity of a parcel of land is a major challenge. For this, site-specific cropping system plan and land-use system based on basic soil and terrain information are a prerequisite. With the advent of remote sensing and geospatial technique, collection of point data and their spatial interpolation on watershed basis is possible in quick time, which can be used for site-specific cropping system planning. In this study, site-specific cropping system and profitable land-use plan were prepared for a watershed of eastern India (Darpanarayanpur, Nayagarh district, Odisha) using geospatial technique. Drainage analysis revealed that prominent drainage pattern was dendritic with low drainage density which indicates that the watershed region has subsoil with high permeability and low relief and, accordingly, rainwater harvesting structures have been suggested in the watershed.

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Crop Diversification, Drainage, Land Resources, Precision Farming, Remote Sensing, Watershed.
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Authors

Gouranga Kar
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibers, Barrrackpore 700 121, India
Prasanta Kumar Patra
ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, India
M. Raychaudhuri
ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, India
P. S. B. Anand
ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, India
N. M. Alam
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibers, Barrrackpore 700 121, India
Sunita Panigrahi
ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, India
Himadrinath Sahoo
ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, India
S. K. Chaudhari
NRM Division, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi 110 012, India

Abstract


To meet the demand of food, fodder, fuel and fibre for the ever-increasing population of the world, achieving higher land and water productivity of a parcel of land is a major challenge. For this, site-specific cropping system plan and land-use system based on basic soil and terrain information are a prerequisite. With the advent of remote sensing and geospatial technique, collection of point data and their spatial interpolation on watershed basis is possible in quick time, which can be used for site-specific cropping system planning. In this study, site-specific cropping system and profitable land-use plan were prepared for a watershed of eastern India (Darpanarayanpur, Nayagarh district, Odisha) using geospatial technique. Drainage analysis revealed that prominent drainage pattern was dendritic with low drainage density which indicates that the watershed region has subsoil with high permeability and low relief and, accordingly, rainwater harvesting structures have been suggested in the watershed.

Keywords


Crop Diversification, Drainage, Land Resources, Precision Farming, Remote Sensing, Watershed.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv121%2Fi11%2F1470-1479