M. Karimi Fard; M. Zakerinia; A.R. Kiani; Mohammadtaghi Feyzbakhsh
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Introduction: Rice is the second most important edible grain after wheat in Iran. The most important factor for sustainable production in rice production lands, is water. Almost 75 percent of the world's rice is produced from paddy fields and rice is the largest consumer of water among all crops. Its ...
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Introduction: Rice is the second most important edible grain after wheat in Iran. The most important factor for sustainable production in rice production lands, is water. Almost 75 percent of the world's rice is produced from paddy fields and rice is the largest consumer of water among all crops. Its growth is significantly affected by climate change and water scarcity. This research was carried out to compare the direct cultivation and transplanting of rice under different irrigation methods from the point of view of water productivity. Material and Methods: The current work was designed as split plot based on randomized complete block design with 6 treatments and three replications in 18 plots with 6 m wide and 12 m length (72 m 2) in area of approximately 1500 m2 at the Agricultural Research Station of Golestan province in spring and the summer of 2018. Treatments including three levels of basin irrigation, sprinkler and drip (tape) irrigation were considered as main factors and two methods of direct cultivation and transplanting were considered as sub-factors. Results and Discussion: The results of analysis of variance showed that the effect of irrigation and sowing method on the yield of rice were significant at 0.01 level probability. The highest amount of biological yield in transplanting was obtained by basin irrigation (8177 kg/ha) and in direct seeding in basin irrigation and taper irrigation (7375 and 6836 kg/ha, respectively). The highest 1000-grain weight in transplanting method was obtained in basin irrigation and direct seeding method in traditional irrigation and tape irrigation. The highest number of filled grains in the panicle was observed in the basin irrigation treatment in transplanting, with significant difference compared to the amount observed in direct seeding. Traditional irrigation between planting methods had not significant effect on the number of hollow grains; while in sprinkler and tape irrigation (with an average of 51 and 56 for sprinkler and tape irrigation, respectively), the number of hollow grains had a higher rate in direct seeding (with an average of 41 and 45 for sprinkler and tape irrigation). The results showed that basin irrigation with 8177 kg/ha grain yield in transplanting method and basin and tape irrigations with 7375 and 6836 kg/ha in direct seeding method had the highest grain yield. Sprinkler irrigation had the lowest paddy yields in transplanting (4188 kg/ha) and direct seeding (5712 kg/ha). Tape irrigation with 7390 and 6840 m3 of consumed water, resulted in lower water consumption compared to traditional irrigation (10700 and 1693 m3), respectively. The highest amount of water use efficiency was obtained in direct and tape irrigation (0.99 kg/m3) and in traditional and tape irrigation (0.76 and 0.66 kg/m3, respectively). Conclusion: Adjusting water consumption both through lower water consumption and reduced water wastage can lead higher water productivity of rice production systems creating sustainable rice production systems. In transplanting method, tape irrigation and traditional irrigation had higher water use efficiency than sprinkler irrigation, although a significant water use reduction in tape irrigation rather than basin irrigation should be analyzed economically at real water prices. Overall, in this study, the tape irrigation method, by reducing water consumption, was able to increase water productivity and maintain the yield of rice in direct cultivation. Sprinkler irrigation had the lowest yield of rice in transplanting and direct cultivation. Problems such as lack of uniformity of spraying and waste water through the wind as well as poor quality of sprinklers are the main reasons for the decrease of the efficiency of sprinkler irrigation.
M. Hassanli; H. Ebrahimian; M. Parsinejad
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Using of saline water for irrigation of crops is known as a strategy of on-farm irrigation water management. In this study, the cyclic using of saline and fresh water and its effect on soil salinity were investigated. Field experiments were carried out in randomized complete block design under drip irrigation ...
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Using of saline water for irrigation of crops is known as a strategy of on-farm irrigation water management. In this study, the cyclic using of saline and fresh water and its effect on soil salinity were investigated. Field experiments were carried out in randomized complete block design under drip irrigation for maize crop with 9 treatments. The treatments were based on alternative irrigation management of saline and fresh water use on three salinity levels 0.4, 3.5 and 5.7 dS/m and freshwater application in every one, three and five saline water application (1:1, 3:1 and 5:1, respectively). The results showed that in 1:1 management, soil salinity at the end of growing season compared with the beginning of growing season did not change considerably (reducing of 1.0% and 17.9% for 1S1:1F and 1S2:1F). In 3S2:1F and 5S2:1F treatments, the amount and frequency of fresh water was not enough to remove salts from the soil and at the end of growing season, salt accumulation was seen in soil profile (increasing of 39.0% and 46.2% in soil salinity). In 3S1:1F and 5S1:1F treatments, soil salinity increased 17.9% and 31.6%, respectively, while increasing of soil salinity in S1 treatment was 40.7%. Thus, by 4 irrigations with fresh water in 3S1:1F treatment and 2 irrigations with fresh water in 5S1:1F treatment, reducing of 22.8% and 9.1% in soil salinity was seen in compared with S1 treatment.
M.M. Gharahdaghi; E. Maroufpoor; Kh. Babaei; F. Mansouri
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Successful pressurized irrigation system accomplishment in a region is related to factors such as climatic conditions, water quality, topography condition, soil specifications, production variety and socio-economic factors. In this study a procedure has been expanded and introduced to scoring the effective ...
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Successful pressurized irrigation system accomplishment in a region is related to factors such as climatic conditions, water quality, topography condition, soil specifications, production variety and socio-economic factors. In this study a procedure has been expanded and introduced to scoring the effective factors in order to selection of pressurized irrigation system. In this procedure the degree of effectiveness are scored in 7 degrees by integer numbers of (-3) to (+3) on different factors. For preventing the equal effects of factors with different degrees of importance a coefficient as a weight of each factor has been taken into account. This coefficient on the base of special condition is determined by analytical hierarchy process. By analytical hierarchy process in corporation with geographical information system (GIS), this weight has been multiplied by the data layers. Final scores are provided by algebraic summation of each factor scores for each region. Really this score is the potential of each pressurized irrigation system. In this research potentiality of pressurized irrigation systems for 12165 hectares of down-stream lands of under study dam of Babakhan localized in Bijar of Kurdistan province is accessed and results are shown as maps with scores of each region of plan area for each pressurized irrigation systems. The results of this research show that out of 12165 hectares downstream lands of Babakhan dam, 4598 hectares (37%) were recognized proper to sprinkler irrigation and all of the investigated lands were proper to trickle irrigation. Also out of proper area for sprinkler irrigation, the portable riser sprinkler irrigation system has taken higher score and wheel move irrigation system ranked as second.
H. Afshar; Hossin Sadrghaen
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In areas with limited water resources, one of the main goals of irrigation is to maximize the water per unit volume. In corn planting two major options for increasing of water productivity are plant density and growing pattern. In order to achieve the above goal in Corn” Karaj 700”, an study was ...
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In areas with limited water resources, one of the main goals of irrigation is to maximize the water per unit volume. In corn planting two major options for increasing of water productivity are plant density and growing pattern. In order to achieve the above goal in Corn” Karaj 700”, an study was conducted in strip split plots in frame of complete randomized block design with 3 replications in Khorasan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center for 3 years. Irrigation treatments were subsurface drip irrigation with 3 levels (50, 75 and 100 percent of full water requirement) in the vertical plots and plant density with 3 levels (65,75 and 85 thousands plants per hectare) in horizontal plots. In addition sub plots were including one and two rows planting pattern on 75 cm furrows. The results showed that irrigation water affected only on corn yield. The maximum yield in all three years was achieved by 100 percent of full water requirement treatment and the minimum yield was observed in 50 percent of full water requirement. The effect of subsurface drip irrigation on water consumption was not significant in the first year but it was significant in the last two years. The most water consumption was achieved by 100 percent of full water requirement treatment. Besides 3 levels of plant density and 2 planting types were not affected on water consumption. Plant height was affected by water quantity in 3 years furthermore this trait was affected by planting type in the second and third year. The maximum and the minimum of plant height were in 100 percent of full water requirement and 50 percent of of full water requirement respectively. The weight of 300 grains in different treatments was affected by planting type in the second year and in the third year this trait was affected by irrigation levels.
S.H. Sadreghaen
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This study was conducted to determine the best micro irrigation system for pepper cultivation during two years. The goal of this study was water saving and reduction the disease progress (Phytophthora capsici) in the field condition. Experimental design was split plot based on randomized complete blocks ...
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This study was conducted to determine the best micro irrigation system for pepper cultivation during two years. The goal of this study was water saving and reduction the disease progress (Phytophthora capsici) in the field condition. Experimental design was split plot based on randomized complete blocks design with four replications. Three different drip irrigation methods; drip irrigation with in-line emitter tubes, drip irrigation (tape), and drip irrigation with porous pipes as main plot and three different amount of water (50, 75 & 100% water requirement) were as sub-plot. The result showed that the drip irrigation had the highest effect on disease control. The drip irrigation (tape) with 100% and 75% water requirement treatments had the lowest progress of Phytophthora capsici.In the first year the effect of irrigation method on yield and progress of Phytophthora capsici was significant. The effect of irrigation levels on the characteristics of plant except yield was no significant (α < 0.01), but the effect of irrigation methods on water use efficiency was significant (α < 0.05). The drip irrigation (tape) with 100% and 75% water requirement treatment had the highest water use efficiency. In the second year the effect of irrigation levels and irrigation methods on yield was significant (α < 0.05), but the effects of combination of irrigation levels and methods on yield was not significant. The drip irrigation (tape) with 100% water requirement treatment had the highest yield. The result in two years showed that the pepper is a sensitive plant to water deficit. The drip irrigation (tape) and 100% water requirement treatment had the highest yield (7214 Kg) and water use efficiency (1.311 Kg/m3). The result also showed that the porous pipes had no good efficiency. According to the results, the best option for pepper is drip irrigation (tape) with using 100% water requirement.
