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Organic mulching plays a vital role in increasing the soil moisture, nutrients, maintains the soil temperature, reduces evaporation, limits the growth of weed and precludes soil erosion. Large volume of crop residues produced along with agricultural crops can effectively be utilized for mulching. Keeping in view these facts, an experimental study was conducted in a randomized block design with three mulch treatments, namely Rice Straw Mulch (RM), Wheat Straw Mulch (WM) and no mulch (NM) at National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur during the year 2017–18. The plot size was 3 m × 1 m. The rate of application of mulches was kept as 10 tonnes ha−1. Soil moisture and soil temperature were determined in soil depths of 10 to 30 cm. The soil moisture increase in WM and RM was 42% and 32% at 10 cm and 3.4% and 19% at 20 cm depths, respectively. Mulching exerted a moderation effect on soil temperature. A favorable reduction in soil temperature upto 2 °C in daily temperature was observed in mulched plots during day time (14 h).
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Goel, L., Sharma, R.K., Shankar, V. (2019). Effect of Use of Crop Residues (Waste Materials) on Soil Moisture and Soil Temperature in Potato Crop Under Mid-Hill Conditions of Himachal Pradesh, India. In: Singh, H., Garg, P., Kaur, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management through Design. ICSWMD 2018. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02707-0_5
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