Water Balance Parameters and Climatic Shift in Season June-December (Mrig Bahar) of Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) of Solapur District, Maharashtra

Arun Bhagat, Pramod Popale

Abstract: The study was carried out to estimate a water balance parameters and climatic shift in Mrig bahar of Pomegranate for 14 stations of Solapur district. Water balance of an area is an itemized statement of all gains, losses and changes of storage of water occurring in a given field within specified boundaries during a specified period of time considering rainfall, evapotranspiration and soil profile. The result reveals that, the climate for Mrig bahar is Variate between semi-arid to dry sub-humid. The abrupt changes, large variation from mean values of water balance parameters are occurred with poor to good moisture adequacy index.

Keywords: Water balance, Mrig bahar, Semi-arid, Dry sub-humid, Moisture adequacy index