Assessment of variability of soil infiltration characteristics in forage cover
Infiltration variability in forages
Keywords:
Infiltration, forage, infiltration models, soil properties, root propertiesAbstract
In India, very limited knowledge of soil infiltration characteristics in forages are available. In this study, infiltration characteristics of land covered by six forages have been studied with respect to bare land in sandy loam soil. Two empirical (Kostiakov and Horton) and two physically-based (Phillip and Green‒Ampt) models have been employed to estimate infiltration characteristics and compared with observed field infiltration data. The steady-state infiltration rates measured in forages and bare land were significantly (p<0.05) different. The highest average steady-state infiltration rate was measured in Panicum maximum (9.00 cm h-1) followed by TSH (7.40 cm h-1) and least was recorded in Cenchrus ciliaris (2.65 cm h-1) whereas the average steady-state infiltration rate recorded for bare land was 1.90 cm h-1. Results showed that the Kostiakov and Phillip model simulated the field infiltration characteristics with higher accuracy than the two other models except for Chrysopogon fulvus and bare land in which the Horton model outperformed other models. Higher steady-state infiltration rates in forages were attributed to more porosity measured in the soils under forages as compared to bare land.
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Machiwal D, Jha MK and Mal BC. 2006. Modelling infiltrtaion and quantifying spatial soil variability in a watershed of Kharagpur. India. Biosyst. Eng. 95(4): 569–582.
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Mezencev VJ. 1948. Theory of formation of the surface runoff. Meteorol. Gidrol.3: 33–46.
Mohan A, Bhardwaj GS, Sen S, Jhala YV and Shivkumar K. 2015. Ecology and Management of Semi-arid Grasslands in India with Special Reference to Endangered Lesser FloricanSypheotidesindica Miller. In: Ecology and Management of grassland habitats in India. ENVIS Bulletin, Volume 17, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India.
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Nie W, Ma X and Fei L. 2017.Evaluation of infiltration models and variability of soil infiltration properties at multiple scales. Irrig. Drain. 66(4): 589–599.
Pal AK, Ahmed A and Pandey VK. 2019. Soil binding capacity of different forage grasses in terms of root reinforcement ability toward soil slope stabilization. Indian J. Hill Farming.32(1): 137–143.
Philip JR. 1957. The theory of infiltration: The infiltration equation and its solution. Soil Sci.83: 345–357.
Ravi V and Williams JR. 1998. Estimation of infiltration rate in the vadose zone: compilation of simple mathematical models. Volume I, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Ada, Oklahoma EPA/600/R-97/128a, pp 26.
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Singh AK, Singh Lal, Kumar C, Kumar P and Dimree SK. 2010. Para grass hybrid (Brachiaria sp.) – A potential forage for India. Envi. & Ecol. 28 (3): 1715-1721.
Singh AK, Verma Nidhi, Yadav SK, Mohanty Aparajita, Singh SP and Singh Surender. 2009. Indian Forage Genetic Resources: Perspectives and Strategies. Prog. Agri. 9 (2): 250-256.
Singh B, Sihag P, and Singh K. 2018.Comparison of infiltration models in NIT Kurukshetra campus. Appl. Water Sci. 8(2): 63.
Smith RE and Parlange JY. 1978. A parameter-efficient hydrologic infiltration model. Water Resour. Res. 14(3): 533–538.
Subramanya K. 2013. Engineering Hydrology. Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited New Delhi.
Swartzendruber D. 1987. A quasi-solution of Richards’ Equation for the downward infiltration of water into soil.Water Resour. Res. 23(5): 809–817.
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