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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

6. Measurement of Agricultural Productivity and Water Productivity of Crops

Author : Suman Lata

Published in: Irrigation Water Management for Agricultural Development in Uttar Pradesh, India

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Abstract

This chapter deals with the measurement of agricultural productivity and water productivity of major crops which plays a significant role in the agricultural development of the state. Agricultural productivity and demarcation of productivity regions have been considered by taking into account four major groups of crops-cereal crops, pulse crops, oilseed crops and cash crops by applying Yang’s ‘crop yield index’ method (1965). Further, crop water requirements, i.e., the evapotranspiration, during the crop growing seasons were calculated applying a statistical formula devised for this purpose and water productivity for four major crops, viz., wheat, rice, maize and sugarcane, were measured for each district of the state. As there are substantial variations in water productivity, some measures have also been put forward for increasing water productivity in the crops considered.

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Footnotes
1
The weight of any plant (or other organism) part after all its water content has been removed by drying.
 
2
The evaporation rate from a reference surface, not short of water, is called the reference crop evapotranspiration or reference evapotranspiration and is denoted as EtP. The reference surface is a hypothetical grass reference crop with specific characteristics (FAO, 1998).
 
3
Crop coefficient (Kc) is dynamic in nature and varies in accordance with crop characteristics, dates of planting, stages of growth and climatic conditions.
 
4
The portion of rainfall that contributes to the crop production including that used for special purposes such as land preparation, leaching etc. is called effective rainfall. About 80 per cent of the rainfall occurs during the growing period of crop.
 
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Metadata
Title
Measurement of Agricultural Productivity and Water Productivity of Crops
Author
Suman Lata
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Irrigation Water Management for Agricultural Development in Uttar Pradesh, India

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-00951-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-00952-6

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00952-6_6