Nitin G. Patil

Nitin G. Patil
National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning | NBSS & LUP · LUP

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Machine learning (ML) algorithms can be applied to predict the suitability of soil for crop cultivation based on digital soil mapping. We used three distinct models viz. Multinomial Logistic Regression (MnLR), Random Forest (RF), and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) to predict the suitability of wheat and pearl millet in the Barmer district of t...
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To manage soil and agriculture sustainably, it is crucial to keep updated on changes in the pools of soil organic carbon (SOC). Using tools from digital soil mapping (DSM), this case study simulates the dynamics of total and active organic carbon. The aim of present study was to assess the performance of various machine learning techniques for SOC...
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Geostatistics tools like ordinary kriging was utilized to investigate the spatial variation in soil reaction (pH), electrical conductivity (EC), soil organic carbon (OC), calcium carbonate (CaCO3), available nitrogen (N), available phosphorus (P), available potassium (K), DTPA-extractable copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn), and iron (Fe) in hot...
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In soil surveys, appropriate soil sampling technique plays a crucial role in the accurate prediction of soil properties. In recent years, conditioned latin hypercube sampling (cLHS) system has gained prominence in soil surveys. The objective of this work was to develop a sampling strategy in remote areas of Thar Desert region of India based on the...
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Spatial variation of soil depth is poorly understood and rarely mapped. It is still difficult to predict soil depth with a small sample size in a large area with complex landscapes. In the present study, the spatial distribution of soil depth was investigated using machine learning (ML) techniques for an area of ~4.9 lakh ha in the Washim district...
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The present study examined how the use of soil color can help build and evaluate clay content prediction models from laboratory visible and near infrared spectroscopic data. This study was based on a regional database containing 449 soil samples collected over Karnataka state in India, which has been divided into red soils (240 samples) and black s...
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Present study on land use land cover analysis and taluka wise combination of cropped area, carried out in Beed district of Maharashtra state in India and studied 11 talukas of the district. Secondary data on land use land cover and area in various crops has been collected, compiled and analyzed from various secondary sources. Simple descriptive sta...
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Water pollution affects water quality that threats human health, economic development, social prosperity and agricultural land values. Temporal changes in the origin and constitution of the recharged water, hydrologic and human factors may cause periodic changes in groundwater quality. In order to assess the groundwater quality in Chitradurgadistri...
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In the south Telangana plateau, Andhra Pradesh, due to low rainfall and high temperature which is limiting the agriculture crop production as the semi-arid climatic condition. Hence, the crop land is being converted to mango plantation/orchards in most of the areas. The soils of mango cultivation were assessed for their physicchemical properties as...
Technical Report
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Under ICAR-funded extramural project on “Mapping and assessment of land degradation in major ecosystems of India using geospatial technologies”, the study has been conducted on mapping and assessment of land degradation on 1:10,000 scale at ten representative blocks in five major ecosystems of India ie,. arid, semi-arid, humid, per-humid, and coast...
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A detailed soil survey was carried out to characterize and classify the soils of Chanavada micro-watershed in Girwa tehsil of Udaipur district, Rajasthan using cadastral map overlaid on IRS P6 LISS IV images of October 2007 and March 2008 as a base. Based on the visual interpretation of satellite data, other collateral data and local micro features...
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A concept of retrieving and monitoring groundwater dynamics was introduced via metrics derived using Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the basaltic region, namely the Euclidian distance between neighbouring irrigation wells, area irrigated per well, well density and cluster analysis. In a representative Nagjhari waters...
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Land resources in India are under severe pressure and it is widely believed that marginal lands are being brought under cultivation. The extent of such changes needs to be known for better land use planning decisions. The present study illustrates the spatio-temporal dynamics of land use land cover of Nagjhari watershed in Bhatkuli block of Amravat...
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The integration of biophysical resources and socio-economic information to form resource management domains indicating similar potential, constraints, and socio-economic status is accepted as an approach for science-based decision-making in land use and other related resource management. A case study of agriculturally worst-hit Yavatmal district in...
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A majority of the existing groundwater potential studies in the literature lack adequate validation. In developing countries, it is attributed to many reasons including-poor/limited data on water yield, sparse spatial and temporal data on wells, lack of data protocol/sharing, a weak ground water governance structure such as disparate agencies, lack...
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This study presents soil suitability evaluation of two major crops grown in a Kupti watershed (11257 ha) located in Darwha block of Yavatmal district in Maharashtra. The study was warranted by continued persistence of the farmers to cultivate cotton and soybean crops during kharif season despite repeated failure of these crops especially cotton rec...
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Status of current land use and development vis-a-vis available resources in 58 disadvantaged districts (of 150) in three different agro-ecological regions (AER) namely 11, 12 and 13 of eastern India were analyzed. Expectedly fragmentation of agriculture land holdings and declining per capita land availability emerged as major constraints. The analy...
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Soil sampling at many sites is costly and time consuming and hence warrants for predicting the soil properties at un-sampled location from sampled site using spatial dependence characteristics of soil properties through interpolation with reasonable accuracy. Soil samples (0 to 20 cm depth) were collected from a regular grid of 200 by 200 m from Na...
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The mineralogical compositions along with physical, chemical, elemental and mineralogical properties of four pedons occurring along a toposequence in Chhota Urla village (Abhanpur tehsil), Raipur district of Chhattisgarh state were studied. Landform had significant influence on physical, chemical, elemental and mineralogical properties of soils. Sa...
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Groundwater is the most important source of water in meeting irrigation, drinking, and other needs in India. The assessment of the potential zone for its recharge is critical for sustainable usage, quality management, and food security. This study reports alternative mapping of the groundwater recharge potential of a selected block by including lar...
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The depletion of land resources is one of the greatest challenges for mankind in this millennium. Shrinking land resources, weather aberrations, deterioration of land quality, and the globalization and liberalization of market economies have become intertwined to influence the sustainable management of land resources and land use plans. This import...
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Legacy soil data have been produced over 70 years in nearly all countries of the world. Unfortunately, data, information and knowledge are still currently fragmented and at risk of getting lost if they remain in a paper format. To process this legacy data into consistent, spatially explicit and continuous global soil information, data are being res...
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The present investigation was undertaken to delineate agricultural prime, moderate prime and marginal lands in Nagpur district Maharashtra based on land use, slope and soil characteristics. The extent of prime lands in the district is about 470418.30 ha (47.5% of TGA) to which Kuhi, Mauda, Saoner and Bhiwapur tehsils contribute, 61378.70 ha, 57051....
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A study was carried out to evaluate applicability of four different pedotransfer functions (Rosetta, Jabro, Puckett and Campbell) in estimating saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) of soils from Shirala Nemane watershed with geographical area of 22,400 ha. in Buldhana district of Maharashtra state. Eighty seven sampling points were marked at a gri...
Technical Report
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The Volume contains 387 abstracts covering on various aspects of Advances in Natural Resources, Inventory and Monitoring, Soil Quality and Challenges in Resilient Agriculture, Land Degradation and Abiotic Stress Management, Climate change, land use/land cover, dynamics and land use planning, Water Management in Rainfed and Irrigated Agro-Ecosystems...
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The need for mathematical modeling of hydraulic properties arises from the fact that, in situ or laboratory measurements of hydraulic properties are time consuming, labour intensive and expensive. The most preferred way to acquire these data is indirect estimation through pedotransfer functions (PTFs) which has become a 'white-hot' topic in the are...
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Characterization of soil hydraulic properties is important to environment management; however, it is well recognized that it is laborious, time-consuming and expensive to directly measure soil hydraulic properties. This paper reviews the development of pedotransfer functions (PTFs) used as an alternative tool to estimate soil hydraulic properties d...
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Assessment of soil water regimes is an important step in water management in agriculture. The most preferred way to acquire these data is indirect estimation pedotransfer function (PTFs) which has become a 'white-hot' topic in the area of soil science and environmental research. In this context; present study was carried out to develop Point Pedotr...
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Shrinking natural resources and high population growth over last 60 years have been a matter of concern for the Indian planners. The situation is getting especially critical for communities solely dependent on common property resources (CPRs) associated with marginal lands, leading to major problems of impov-erishment. The present study was carried...
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Current status of land/soil resources of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) is analysed to highlight the issues that need to be tackled in near future for sustained agricultural productivity. There are intra regional variations in soil properties, cropping systems; status of land usage, groundwater utilization and irrigation development which vary acro...
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Land evaluation is carried out to assess the suitability of land for a specific use. Land evaluation procedures focus increasingly on the use of quantitative procedures to enhance the qualitative interpretation of land resource surveys. Conventional Boolean retrieval of soil survey data and logical models for assessing land suit-ability, treat both...
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The sustenance of food and nutritional security are the major challenges of the 21st century. The domestic food production needs to increase per annum at the rate of 2% for cereals and 0.6% for oilseeds and pulses to meet the demand by 2030. The Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) and the black soil regions (BSR) are the two major food production zones of t...
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Five benchmark soils, namely Fatehpur (Punjab) and Haldi (Uttarakhand) non-sodic soils, Zarifa Viran (Haryana), Sakit and Itwa sodic soils (Uttar Pradesh) representing Trans, Upper, Middle and Central Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) were revisited for studying the morphological, physical and chemical properties of soils at low and high management levels...
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Soil information system in SOTER (soil and terrain digital database) framework is developed for the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) and black soil regions (BSR) of India with the help of information from 842 georeferenced soil profiles including morphological, physical and chemical properties of soils in addition to the site characteristics and climatic...
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Land-use planning is a decision-making process that facilitates the allocation of land to different uses that provide optimal and sustainable benefit. As land-use is shaped by society–nature interaction, in land-use planning different components/facets play a significant role involving soil, water, climate, animal (ruminant/ non-ruminant) and other...
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Land-use planning is a decision-making process that facilitates the allocation of land to different uses that provide optimal and sustainable benefit. As land-use is shaped by society-nature interaction, in land-use planning different components/facets play a significant role involving soil, water, climate, animal (rumi-nant/non-ruminant) and other...
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Land-use planning is a decision-making process that facilitates the allocation of land to different uses that provide optimal and sustainable benefit. As land-use is shaped by society–nature interaction, in land-use planning different components/facets play a signifi-cant role involving soil, water, climate, animal (rumi-nant/non-ruminant) and othe...
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Sustaining soil and land quality under intensive land use and fast economic development is a major chal-lenge for improving crop productivity in the develop-ing world. Assessment of soil and land quality indicators is necessary to evaluate the degradation status and changing trends of different land use and management interventions. During the last...
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Crop simulation models have emerged as powerful tools for estimating yield gaps, forecasting production of agricultural crops and analysing the impact of cli-mate change. In this study, the genetic coefficients for Bt hybrids established from field experiments were used in the InfoCrop-cotton model, which was cali-brated and validated earlier to si...
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Soil information system in SOTER (soil and terrain digital database) framework is developed for the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) and black soil regions (BSR) of India with the help of information from 842 georefer-enced soil profiles including morphological, physical and chemical properties of soils in addition to the site characteristics and climati...