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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2020, Volume : 8, Issue : 1
First page : (262) Last page : (271)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.7987

A Review: Use of Saline Water in Irrigation for Agriculture

Ashish Kumar^1*, Mukesh Kumar Mehla² and Sanjay Kumar^3
1Senior Research Fellow, Department of Soil and Water Engineering,
College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, PAU, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
²Ph.D Scholar, Department of Soil and Water Engineering,
College of Technology and Engineering, MPUAT, Udiapur, Rajasthan, India
³Professor and Head, Department of Soil and Water Engineering,
College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: kamboashish@gmail.com
Received: 9.01.2019  |  Revised: 16.02.2020   |  Accepted: 23.02.2020 

 ABSTRACT

The shortage of water resources of good quality is becoming a main issue in the arid and semi-arid zones. Approximately 32 to 84% area under arid and semi-arid states is covered under saline or alkali groundwater. In Haryana, poor quality waters are 55%. Among the poor quality waters 18% were sodic, 11% saline and 26% were saline-sodic. Use of poor quality water for irrigation is a strategy to overcome the water shortage. For this reason the availability of water resources of marginal quality groundwater has become an important consideration. Therefore, irrigation with saline water requires a comprehensive analysis even beyond the area where water is applied.  For studied many research papers, we found that conjunctive use of saline water (SW) and fresh water (FW) is best for crop production. Results showed that the conjunctive use of saline and non-saline water can increase the irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE) with a little reduction in crop yield compared to constant use of saline water for irrigation. In addition of conjunctive use, salt tolerant verities should be adopted to minimize the effect of salinity.

Keywords: Saline water, Fresh water, Poor quality water, Marginal quality water, Salt tolerant verity

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Cite this article: Kumar, A., Mehla, M.K., & Kumar, S. (2020). A Review: Use of Saline Water in Irrigation for Agriculture, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 8(1), 262-271. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.7987