Saeid ghavam seeidi noghabi; Abbas Khashei-siuki; Hossein Hammami
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Introduction: Water is one of the most important factors limiting agricultural developments in arid and semi-arid regions in the world. One of the important issues of water management is assessment and determination of water requirement of plants. One of the main water management strategies in agriculture ...
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Introduction: Water is one of the most important factors limiting agricultural developments in arid and semi-arid regions in the world. One of the important issues of water management is assessment and determination of water requirement of plants. One of the main water management strategies in agriculture is to assess and determine the plants water requirement. Due to dry and semi-arid weather conditions in Iran the optimal use of water resources is crucial. Plants water requirements are the important parts of the hydrological cycle, and its precise estimation is essential for water budget studies, facilities, management, design of new irrigation systems and water resources management. The determination of behavior and characteristics non-reference vegetation compared to reference vegetation (grass) is the first step in estimating the evapotranspiration of crops. It is important to determine the crop factor in order to measure the water requirement of the crop at different stages of growth. The crop coefficient expresses the effects of crop and soil moisture on a non-reference plant species relative to the reference plant. Among the medicinal herbs, Hibiscus sabdariffa L. is an annual tropical and sub-tropical herbaceous plant belongs to Malvaceae family. Red calyces of Roselle are a source of anthocyanins (about 1.5 g/100 g dry weight), vitamin C and other antioxidants, such as flavonoids (gossypetin, hibiscetine, and sadderetine). Roselle is a medicinal plant that cultivated in Iran especially in Sistan and Baluchestan province. Regarding the long history of cultivation, and high consumption in Iran and the world so far, there has not been a scientific report about Roselle water requirement at different stages of growth. Therefore, this research was carried out with the aim of obtaining Roselle water coefficients and studying the pattern of its changes during the growing season in dry and semi-arid climates of Birjand using the lysimetric method.
Materials and Methods: To determine the Roselle crop coefficient, as a valuable medicinal herb, a lysimetric experiment was conducted in faculty of agriculture, Birjand University during the growing season in 2017. The lysimeters used for this experiment have 20 cm diameter and 16 cm in height. Three lysimeters used for sowing Roselle and three lysimeters used for reference plant. There are six orifices as a water drain in the bottom of each lysimeter. Floor of lysimeter covered by 5 cm granule layer, then filled with soil and cow decayed fertilizer mixture. In each lysimeter, 25 seeds of Roselle were sown. To determine potential evapotranspiration, 12 centimeters height grass was used as the reference plant. Water requirement of Roselle was determined by water balance method. The Roselle growth period was divided into four stages included initial (10% plant growth after emergence), development (between 10% plant growth and before flowering), middle (between early flowering and end flowering), and end (between end flowering and seed ripening). Weed control was achieved by hand hoeing during the growth season. Drainage water was measured by weighting and soil moisture hold at field capacity during the growth season.
Results and Discussion: Results of this study showed that Roselle plant in the initial stage due to slow growth and low transpiration have low Kc compared to middle and development stage. The average coefficient of Roselle was 1.26, 1.55, 1.81, and 0.96 in the initial, development, middle, and end stages respectively. Duration of growth stages for Roselle in Birjand region is 35, 75, 100, and 30 days after emergence. This results revealed an increasing trend from initial to development and middle stages. However, in the end stage of Roselle, Kc decreased. The result of this study showed that evapotranspiration of Roselle was 3819.57 mm whereas the reference plant evapotranspiration was 2420.3 mm. Due to water shortage in the arid and semi-arid region, this plant is not proper for sowing in this area.
Conclusions: According to the results of this study, the annual average evapotranspiration rate of the Roselle was 3819.57 mm whereas the reference plant evapotranspiration was 2420.3 mm. Therefore, the water requirement of Roselle is very high during growth period. Finally, according to the high water requirement and water deficient in Birjand, Iran; it seems that Roselle is not a proper plant for sowing in this area.
Mohsen Ahmadee; Abbas Khashei Siuki; Mohamad Hasan Sayyari
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Introduction: Nitrogen is an essential element for plant nutrition. Urea is a common fertilizer that used by farmers due to high nitrogen content in its structure. This fertilizer transforms into nitrate in soil. Nitrate is leached below the rooting zoon of agricultural soil. Nitrate leaching is not ...
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Introduction: Nitrogen is an essential element for plant nutrition. Urea is a common fertilizer that used by farmers due to high nitrogen content in its structure. This fertilizer transforms into nitrate in soil. Nitrate is leached below the rooting zoon of agricultural soil. Nitrate leaching is not only a waste of a great cost, but also causes the pollution of water resources. Methemoglobinemia and cancer are well known issues that caused by nitrate leaching. For this purpose, many methods have been proposed to prevent nitrate leaching but due to high cost and low efficiency are not accepted. Using of zeolites is one of the ways that is considered due to its low cost and ability. Zeolite is a mineral material that found in many regions in Iran. Although effect of zeolite on nitrate leaching reduction was studied by many researchers, but there was no study on common three types of Iranian zeolite.
Materials and Methods: For this purpose, a study was conducted as factorial layout based on a CRD with 21 treatments and 3 replications (total of 63 pots) at the Agricultural Research Station (with longitude and latitude 59o 21’ E and 32o 78’ N, respectively, and elevation 1941m), University of Birjand during 2013. Treatments consisted of calcic zeolite (Zca), potasic (Zk) and z-mix (Zs) in three levels: 0 (M0), 2 (M2) and 6 (M6) as wt% and three nitrogen levels: zero (F0), 200 (F2) and 400 (F4) (as mg.kg-1 soil). Natural clinoptilolite zeolite (Zca, Zk and Zs) were collected from Semnan province (53o 15’ E, 35o 25’ N) and analyzed for its chemical composition by X-ray diffraction.
Pots after saffron harvesting irrigated (in October) and urea treatment added to irrigation water (Iranian farmers called as Zaeech Ab). For prepared sufficient drain from all pots, due to different effect of type and amount of zeolite on soil water content, based on former experiments, leaching fraction was considered as 20%. Sample drain from each pot were transferred toa lab, immediately, and were measured by spectrophotometer. Data related to nitrate leaching were analyzed by ANOVA and Tukey’s test. In this study, SAS 9.1.3 software and Microsoft Excel 2013 were used.
Results and Discussion: Results showed that type of zeolite, amount of zeolite, amount of nitrogen fertilizer, type of zeolite with amount of zeolite (interaction effect) had significant effect (P
N. Reyhani; Abbas Khashei siuki
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Introduction: Water is one of the most important factors limiting agricultural developments in arid and semiarid regions in the world. To avoid and exit from water crisis, a proper agricultural and water resource management is required. One of the important parameters in this regard, is determination ...
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Introduction: Water is one of the most important factors limiting agricultural developments in arid and semiarid regions in the world. To avoid and exit from water crisis, a proper agricultural and water resource management is required. One of the important parameters in this regard, is determination of crops’ evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiration, water evaporation from the soil surface and transpiration of vegetation cover have a major trend and a key element in hydrological cycle for management of water resources, particularly in arid and semi-arid. Evapotranspiration is function of the soil, climate, land use, aerodynamic resistance levels and topography of the area. To provide a suitable irrigation schedule and apply an optimal water use management, determination of water requirement and crop coefficients in various growth stages seems necessary. Crop coefficient can be found through dividing the actual evapotranspiration by the potential evapotranspiration. Since the cuminum is commonly used in Birjand and has cultivated in farm and crop coefficients has not been determined , this study aimed to determine the crop coefficients of cuminum using lysimeter water balance in arid and semi-arid climatic conditions.
Materials and Methods: In this research, in order to determine cuminum crop coefficients, that is one of the important herbs, a lysimetric experiment was conducted during growth season in faculty of agriculture, Birjand university. This project, was done in lysimeter. For this purpose and due to the size and plant height in three lysimeter (as replications) with a diameter of 20 and a height of 16 cm was used order to the cultivation of Cuminum. In order to drainage at the bottom of each lysimeter was built orifice. For easily of lysimeters drainage, lysimeter floor was poured by small and large sand and lysimeter was filled by soil and animal Fertilizers for better plant growth. Three lysimeters were used; and water requirement of cuminum was calculated using water balance method. To calculate potential evapotranspiration, grass with 12 centimeters height was used as the reference plant. Crop coefficient can be achieved by dividing the actual evapotranspiration to reference evapotranspiration and is not fixed growth period. The cumin plant growth period was divided four stages (initial, development, middle and end). The initial phase of up to 10% on seed germination and plant growth, from 10 percent to flowering development stage, middle stage and final stage of the start of flowering to product reaches to harvest is the end of the middle stage. In each lysimeter average number of 20-15 of seed to increasing germination, were planted on the February 9, 2012. To control weeds, weed was done handing during the growing season. Drainage water is controlled over a period of time measured with weighting method and deep and volume of water was measured. Soil moisture at field capacity using pressure plates was measured. Measuring soil water content and determine irrigation time.
Results and Discussion According to the results obtained for the crop coefficient can be concluded that in the initial stages of plant growth that plant size is small, transpiration is low and therefore Kc have low value. In the middle and development stage increases canopy and increased transpiration rate and increases Kc. At the end stage to reducing activity of the leaves (old leaves) reduced transpiration. The average crop coefficient of cumin in the initial phase of growth during the study to 0.65, then with increasing plant growth, leaf area index were increased and crop coefficient increased to 0.92 in development stage. In the middle of this amount is 1.21 and in the end the 0.85 reached. Average crop coefficients for a four-stage is 0.9. Duration of growth stages for cuminum crops in Birjand region is 24 days for initial stage, 40 days for middle stage and 31 days for development and 19 days for end stage of growth stages.
Conclusions In this study according to important of drug and economic for cuminum plant and that there isn’t report for crop coefficient cuminum and Birjand region, we cultivate cuminum in arid area of Birjand in 2011 year. The results of lysimeters showed that Duration of plant growth stages and value of crop coefficients in the initial , development, middle and end stages, respectively (24, 40, 31 and 19 days) and (0.65, 0.921.21 and 0.85) respectiely.
A. Khashei Siuki; B. Ghahraman; M. Kouchakzadeh
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Nayshabour plain in Khorasan Razavi with arid and semi-arid climate, have an important role in agricultural production by using groundwater resources. In this study, by using groundwater balance model the equations which are required for estimating water table variations is obtained for plain. afterwards ...
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Nayshabour plain in Khorasan Razavi with arid and semi-arid climate, have an important role in agricultural production by using groundwater resources. In this study, by using groundwater balance model the equations which are required for estimating water table variations is obtained for plain. afterwards since, there are too many variables in the objective function of water consumption(optimized crop pattern and intensification) a meta heuristic method which require less computation of effect while it is more efficient will be used. In this research PSO optimization algorithm (Particle Swarm Optimization) is used. Model results based on a normal year (2008) showed that can earn highest income from the aquifer with 30 percent reduced spring cultivation, and increased 30 percent of wheat, barley and calona. Among the spring crops, corn and tomato ratio to another crops have largest increase area. The results showed that can obtain 7500 (thousands rial /hec)more benefit with increasing 20,591 hectares to autumn crops and reduced 10,970 spring products
