Abstract

Geotextile is a branch of technical textile virtually dealswith the GEO means EARTH that is soil & rocks. The geotextiles aremagic panacea for almost all the geotechnical problems. As it was 1^stused in 1926 by the South Carolina Highways Dept. in a series of roadconstriction. But, in 1973 three basic functions where identified by scientistsMr. Leflaife & Mr. Puig these are separation, filtration & thendrainage. Therefore the manufacturing process of most widely used geotextilenet which was made by Netlon in UK was patented in 1960.

As the Indian economy is broadly dependant on agriculture,ours GDP fluctuates due to the agricultural production, but it is hampered dueto various reasons like climate, rainfall, site situation, etc. out of whichsite situation is most important aspect as per as crop yield is concerned.Because, soil erosion is one of the critical problem which is due to severerainfall, storms, etc & ultimately vegetation on these top soil becomesextreme difficult as loss of soil takes place. So in order to avoid soilerosion & to have better fertility of soil surface covering basedgeotextiles approaches tends to be more effective using jute material.

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Authors are students of D.K.T.E, Ichalkaranji

Thispaper was presented at event under national level grand fiesta PRAGYAA-2010Department of Textile Technology of S G G S I E&T., Nanded.