Simple Approaches to Quantify Yield Production and Soil Responsibility to Different Water Qualities and Moisture Depletion | ||||
| Journal of Soil and Water Sciences | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2013, Page 13-22 PDF (1.27 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jsws.2013.6674 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Essam Hokam | ||||
| Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This study is an attempt to quantify the effect of different water qualities interacted with different moisture depletion levels on crop yield and leaching requirement for salt affected soil. Barley crop was cultivated on sandy soil as a pots experiment in the open field, in Ismailia, Egypt. Three water qualities were collected from different resources to represent three different water qualities: 1) Nile water, 0.4 dS m-1, 2) Salam Canal, 0.8 dS m-1 and 3) Diluted Sea water, 7.4 dS m-1. Winter barley has been irrigated with the three different waters, where each type was applied under three different levels of soil moisture depletion: 25 %, 50 % and 75 % of soil field capacity. An empirical model to predict yield production was developed and evaluated in comparison to some common models such as models of Stewart and Maas-Hoffman's models. The results showed that the suggested model could be used as reliable approach to predict the relative yield of barley cultivated in sandy soil under different water salinities and soil moisture depletion levels, as well as the leaching requirement of such salt affected soils irrigated with saline water. The validation of the common used Hoffman's equation for leaching requirements, LR, had been tested based on leaching curve experiment. The results indicated that the developed model for yield prediction may be successfully adapted to estimate the relative yield as a function of both water salinity and depletion level of soil moisture. Based on the data of leaching experiment a relative over-estimation of the LR was obtained using Hoffman's equation compared to that estimated from Oster's equation. The amounts of water applied based on Oster's equation could be reduced to about one-third of that calculated according to Hoffman and led to the provision of large amounts of water available for irrigation. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Barley; leaching requirements; saline water; sandy soil; yield prediction | ||||
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