S27 : Simulation of Nitrate Movement in Soil with Tomato Transplanting
Thesis > Central Library of Shahrood University > Agricultural Engineering > MSc > 2011
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Abstarct: Agricultural activities are the most significant anthropogenic sources of nitrate pollution
in ground water and nitrate leaching from this systems has direct impact on ground
water quality. The importance of ground water pollution, due to extravagance in
application of N fertilizers in intensive agricultural areas has been increased during last
decade. We have to know that increasing of the yield shouldn t make to destroyed the
environment. Increasing of production in unit area and improving of yield quantity and
quality need special notation. Changing of irrigation systems from current methods such
as surface irrigation to advance systems such as drip irrigation can be has important role
in this case, because application of this systems cause increasing of water use
efficiency. Fertigation is the most effective water application method in vegetables and
garden crops, which is working with drip irrigation system. In order to more survey this
system s efficiency perform an experiment contacted with 4 treatments with
transplanting of tomato crop in Bastam, Shahrood, which involves 3 treatments with
drip irrigation and fourth treatment to surface irrigation. To analyze and obtain more
complete information from results I used an advanced model HYDRUS-2D. Results of
research indicated that the strategy of weekly fertigation and alternate day irrigation is
increasing water and nitrogen use efficiency. Another result showed that average yield
of drip irrigation was 72.56 t/ha which is showing increasing of 30 percent yield with
compare to surface irrigation and also it is showing 116 percent more yield with
compare to yield of tomato in Bastam area. Also results of simulation of water and
nitrate movement in soil laxyers showed that water and nutrient distribution during plant
growth period were proportionate with root development depth and so were available in
the plant requirement time, that is demonstrated high efficiency of fertigation system.
Another results of modeling study is real estimating of drainage water and nitrate
leaching below crop root zone in the plant growth season. Numerical analysis of model
results showed that drainage water below root zone was only 0.3 percent of applied
water and leaching of nitrate below this zone was 3.29 percent of total useable nitrate
which indicate that high percent of water and nutrient were concentrated in root
extension zone.
Keywords:
#Leaching #Fertigation #Nitrate #Simulation #HYDRUS-2D #Tomato
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