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Affect of High Salinity Water on Different Crops at Khanpur Taluka (Gujarat)

Swanti A. Jain and K. P. Patel

Future demands of the world’s limited water resources and the demands to adequately feed expanding population required that irrigation efficiency and crop productivity from irrigated land should be improved. About 75% of India’s population is in villages and most of them depends upon agriculture for their live-hood. Previously, they were depend upon the rain fall for the irrigation purposes, which was quit uncertain. Then they started using underground water of wells, tubewells, ponds, rivers etc. This study has been done in order to find out the means of measuring the amount of different chemicals constituents in different irrigation waters and soil of some villages of Khanpur Taluka, Gujarat (India) to find out the suitability for different crops and their verities