Soil Electrical conductivity as Affected by Biochar Under Summer Crops

Haq Nawaz, Farhan Ahmed, Waseem Abbas, Junaid Ahmed, Zahid Mehmood, Hudood Ullah and Noor Ul Basar
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Zahid Mehmood: Department of Agronomy, the University of Agriculture, Pakistan
Noor Ul Basar: Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, the University of Agriculture, Pakistan

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2018, vol. 14, issue 4, 54-57

Abstract: A field experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of biochar on soil electrical conductivity under summer crop at the research farm of the University of Agriculture, Peshawar during kharif, 2017. The experiment was performed in RCB design having four replicates. Different level of biochar 0, 5, 0, and 10 t ha-1 was applied to field. Data on soil electrical conductivity was taken. The result shows all soil samples under different crops (Chickpea-maize, chickpea-mung, wheat-maize and wheat-mung) were nonsaline in nature. Mean electrical conductivity was maximum (0.067dSm-1) for treatment (T3) which had not received any biochar while remaining treatments has same electrical conductivity which is 0.066dSm-1. Furthermore mean electrical conductivity of soil under chickpea/maize and chickpea mung cropping system is 0.070 and 0.071dSm-1 respectively while soil under wheat-maize and wheat-mung cropping system has the EC of 0.061 and 0.064dSm-1 respectively. These results suggested that Biochar should be use to lower the soil electrical conductivity. Further studies are needed to explore the results.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2018.14.555887

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