National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The organic matter is one of the important soil quality attribute can have beneficial effects on soil quality because organic matter is related to soil physico-chemical properties and availability of nutrients to crop. The present investigation was carried out during 2017-18 at research farm of Tirhut College of Agriculture, Dholi, Muzaffarpur to evaluate the effect of cropping system on soil properties and enzymatic activities in calcareous soils. For the study, soil samples were collected from each treatment (cropping systems) during mid-April to mid-May, 2018 after completion of one cropping cycle for the analysis of soil properties using standard procedure. The variability in soil pH under different cropping systems at surface layer ranged from 7.79 to 8.79. However, highest 8.81 and lowest soil pH 7.85was recorded under different cropping systems at sub-surface layer. The carbon stock in different cropping systems varied from 6.98 to 11.95 t ha-1and 4.89 to 10.81 t ha-1in surface and sub-surface soil layer under different cropping systems. The dehydrogenase and alkaline phosphatase enzymes variation observed from 6.87 to 19.91 µg TPF g-1 soil 24 h-1 and 6.77 to 33.55 µg PNP g-1 soil h- 1 at the 0-15cm soil depth in which pigeon pea cropping system obtained higher dehydrogenase and alkaline phosphatase enzymes than others kinds od cropping systems.
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