Varietal assessment of wheat crop in sodic land situation in district Auraiya Uttar Pradesh

Problematic soils in India mainly consist of salt-affected soil and acidic soil with an area extension of 6.73 million ha (Sharma et al., 2016) and 15.93 million ha, respectively. However, at the global level, 0.34 billion and 0.56 billion ha of the area have saline and sodic soil, respectively (Shahid et al., 2018). Along with this, there are soils that are getting polluted because of untreated industrial effluents, sewage water and waste from landfill areas, and seepage of industrial pollutants. These soils have several problems and need special management practices and input addition along with normal management practices for successful crop production. An on farm trial was conducted in Rabi 2012-13 by KVK, Auraiya to optimize the wheat yield in partially reclaimed sodic soils by the use of sodic salt tolerant variety developed by CSSRI, Karnal. The varieties KRL 210 and KRL 213 was tested against the local variety Lok 1. Both the varieties i.e., KRL 210 (4.98 and 6.39 t/ha) and KRL 213 (4.24 and 5.58 t/ha) showed the higher grain and straw yield as compared to local (3.64 and 5.21 t/ha). In terms of return KRL 210 showed the highest net return of Rs. 46710/- as compared to KRL 213 which showed the net return of Rs. 36898/- and least is in case of local (Rs. 30592/-). This showed that KRL 210 performance was best in sodic soil. Problem definition: Low yield due to sodicity.