Water stress periods are common in rainfed agriculture therefore the activities aimed at conserving the rainwater should be adopted for improving the productivity of dryland crops. The major crops in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra are cotton, soybean and sorghum. It was observed that the drought situation may arise during crop growth period which may result in partial failure of crops. It was therefore felt worthwhile to adopt the proper methods of in-situ moisture conservation so as to partially meet out the adverse effect of water stress in standing crop. | 2017 6 10 261-268 International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 10 2017 pp. 261-268 Journal homepage http Original Research Article https Evaluation of In-situ Moisture Conservation Practices for Sustainable Productivity of Major Crops in Vidarbha Region . Patode . Nagdeve . Ganvir and . Gabhane All India Coordinated Research Project for Dryland Agriculture Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth Akola Maharashtra 444 104 India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Water stress periods are common in rainfed agriculture therefore the activities aimed at conserving the rainwater should be adopted for improving the productivity of dryland Keywords crops. The major crops in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra are cotton soybean and Productivity Soil sorghum. It was observed that the drought situation may arise during crop growth period moisture in-situ which may result in partial failure of crops. It was therefore felt worthwhile to adopt the practices proper methods of in-situ moisture conservation so as to partially meet out the adverse Economics effect of water stress in standing crop. The experiment was undertaken at the experimental Treatments. field of AICRP for Dryland Agriculture Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth Article Info Akola. The treatments adopted were T 1- Furrow opening F T2- Crop residue mulch M T3 -Thinning T T4- Combination of furrow opening crop residue mulch and Thinning Accepted FMT and T5- Control. The three major crops of Vidarbha region . cotton AKH- 04 September 2017 84635 soybean JS-335 and sorghum CSH-9 are considered for the study. The results Available Online regarding yields and soil moisture at different stages of crop growths since 2007-08 to 10 October 2017 2010-11 were presented here. The economic evaluation of these practices has been done and is discussed in this paper. Introduction The .
