agronomy agricultural physics agricultural meteorology soil science

Suggested Readings
Arakeri, H.R, Chalam,G.V, Satyanarayana, P. and Donahue, R.L, 1962. Soil management
in India, Asia Publishing House, Bombay.
Bennett, H.H. 1955. Elements of soil conservation, McGraw Hill, New York.
Hillel, D. 1998. Environmental Soil physics, Academic Press,
Hockensmith, R.D. (editor). 1960. Water and Agriculture, Am Assoc. for Advancement
of Sci, Publication No. 62.
Smith, G.H. (editor) 1962. Conservation of natural resources, Wiley & Sons, New
York.
Stallings, J.H. 1957. Soil conservation, Prentice Hall, Inc, Eaglewood Cliffs, NJ.
Tejwani, K.G.,Gupta, S.K. and Mathur, H.N., 1975. Soil and Water Conservation
Research, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi.
USDA. 1954. A Manual of Conservation of Soil and Water, USDA, Soil Conservation
Service, Handbook No. 61.
2. Soil physical environment and plant growth (2+1)
Composition of soil physical environment in relation to plant growth and development,
soil aggregates, soil structure and fabric, soil strength, surface and subsurface
mechanical impedance to seedling emergence and root development, soil conditioners;
soil-water-plant relationship-seed water uptake, root growth and development,
water flow in soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, plant water status and stress development.
Water use efficiency, water use-yield relationships. Soil-air-plant relations,
critical oxygen concentration and factors affecting; soil temperature in relation to
germination of seeds and growth and development of plants. Soil and plant criteria
for soil irrigability and irrigation scheduling of crops. Field water balance for irrigation
under adequate and inadequate water supply conditions. Irrigation and nutrient
interaction. Soil physical properties in relation to erosion, water logging, Tillage in
relation to soil physical properties, root and crop growth, salt build-up and their
improvement for crop production. Soil based indices for sustainability evaluation.
Crop growth simulation models and their applications.
Practical
Measurement of soil surface and sub-surface mechanical impedance; determination
of root- weight- density and root-mass-density; measurement of soil and plant water
potentials-use of psychrometef for water stress measurements; measurement of Oxygen
Diffusion Rate; determination of soil moisture content by time domain
refractometry; measurement of soil water flux and K ( 6 ) relations by internal drainage
methods; determination of soil-moisture content by neutron moisture meter.