Modelling and Assessment of Water Suitability for Agriculture in Safidon Tehsil of Jind District, Haryana, India

Agriculture requires an enormous amount of water. The quality of water used for irrigation is essential. This study aims to add to the growing body of research on the appropriateness of water suitability of Safidon tehsil in Jind district. A total of 76 samples from different locations were collected from Safidon tehsil. The water samples were analyzed for major cations (Na+, Ca2+ and Mg2+) and Anions (HCO3–, CO3–, Cl– and SO42–). The irrigation suitability will be calculated by using Residual Sodium Carbonate (RSC), Potential Salinity (PS), and Permeability Index (PI). The Result shows that 99% of samples of PI were suitable while only 1% were unsuitable, the PS of water samples lies from 20.1 to 35.92 which shows that the water is unsuitable for irrigation and the values of RSC lies between -1190 to -81 and these negative values indicate little risk of sodium accumulation due to offsetting levels of calcium and magnesium in the study area.