The soil moisture reader/sensor instrument will be used on rain fed sorghum crop with various treatments of water harvesting techniques and also moisture reeding is intended to be done in Conservation Agriculture plots.
@ Jephias, you may use soil moisture meter produced by Xlux or Gouevn. But I always prefer to use Tensiometer.
Hello Jephias, My group use gypsum blocks to measure soil moisture and they work well - we compare them with soil probe.
http://www.experimental-hydrology.net/wiki/index.php?title=Soil_matric_potential_-_tensiometer_%28T5%29
Soil tensiometers have good potential to accurately determine the soil moisture level.
The equipment can be coupled to trigger an irrigation to only add water when needed and to be shut off when adecuate soil moisture is availabel this can avoid over use of water saving resources.
ya! it is better to purchase the moisture tester that reads the moisture in mm and then you can convert the unit!
But , first you need to calibrate it using the gravimetric and volumetric methods.
Actually there are so many methods and insurments including Nutron probe but they have to be calibrated accordingly
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