Quality management of irrigation water through native three materials

Abstract

Laboratory experiments were conducted to study the effect of amla tree dried lopping on the improvement of irrigation water quality. The irrigation water from three different sources, with varying water quality and distilled water as control was treated with amla (Pyllanthus emblica) tree dried lopping at four concentration levels viz., 0, 5, 10 and 15 percent. The study was conducted in FRBD with three replications. The results clearly indicated that treatment of amla tree dried lopping at varying concentrations on different irrigation water quality sources invariably decreased the pH and slightly increased the electrical conductivity. In the high RSC water used, treatment with amla at 5 per cent level decreased the pH from 9.1 to 7.1 within a day after treatment and stabilized to 6.5, but EC increased from 1.8 to 1.98 and stabilized to 2.14 after a week. In all the treatments, Na and K concentrations increased leading to slight increase in electrical conductivity. The treatment of alkali (high RSC) water with amla tree dried lopping improved the quality for irrigation.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A00494

Pages

438 - 441

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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