Article
Agronomy
Songmei Zai, Xuefang Feng, Donglin Wang, Yan Zhang, Feng Wu
Summary: The study found that micro-furrow irrigation had shorter advance times compared to border irrigation, with increased application efficiency and distribution uniformity but decreased requirement efficiency. It is recommended to use a micro-furrow shape with a depth of 10 cm or 15 cm and a bottom width of 6 cm.
Article
Agronomy
Juan Yu, Keyao Liu, Anbin Li, Mingfei Yang, Xiaodong Gao, Xining Zhao, Yaohui Cai
Summary: This study proposed a method to improve the behavior of furrow irrigation water using a movable plug. The results showed that the plug could slow down water velocity, extend the furrow advance time, increase the water level, and improve irrigation uniformity, which is of great significance for furrow irrigation practices of smallholder farmers in developing countries.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tigabie Setu, Terhas Legese, Geteneh Teklie, Birara Gebeyhu
Summary: Improved irrigation water management is crucial for optimizing water use efficiency in areas with limited water resources. A field experiment was conducted in Ethiopia to evaluate the effects of different furrow irrigation systems and deficit irrigation levels on maize agronomy and water use efficiency. The results showed that the conventional furrow irrigation system at 100%ETc achieved the highest grain yield, while the fixed furrow irrigation system at 50%ETc had the lowest yield. Furthermore, the conventional furrow irrigation system at 50%ETc exhibited the highest water use efficiencies. Overall, implementing a conventional furrow irrigation system at 50%ETc can effectively increase irrigable land and solve water shortage issues without significant yield reduction.
Article
Agronomy
Dillon Russell, Gurbir Singh, Nicolas Quintana-Ashwell, Gurpreet Kaur, Drew Gholson, L. Jason Krutz, Kelly A. Nelson
Summary: In order to conserve groundwater levels and maintain crop productivity, it is crucial to find more effective methods. This study aimed to determine the optimal combination of cover crop and irrigation sensor threshold for maximizing soybean yield, irrigation water use efficiency, water productivity, and farm profitability. The results showed that the highest soybean yield was achieved with hairy vetch cover crop under wet irrigation threshold in 2020, but no differences were observed in 2021. Water productivity was lower under the wet irrigation threshold compared to other treatments in 2020 and at least 23% lower in wet threshold treatments than dry threshold treatments in 2021. Irrigation water use efficiency was higher under the dry irrigation threshold than the wet irrigation threshold in 2020. When averaged over two years, economic returns were reduced with cover crops compared to no cover crop, except for the wheat-radish-turnip mix under the dry threshold treatments. These findings suggest the need for long-term evaluation of the impact of cover crops under different irrigation regimes.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Mabood Farhadi Machekposhti, Ali Shahnazari, Mostafa Yousefian, Mirkhalegh Z. Ahmadi, Mahmoud Raeini Sarjaz, Behrouz Arabzadeh, Ali Akbarzadeh, Brian G. Leib
Summary: This study evaluates the impact of alternate partial root-zone drying irrigation on rice yield, milled rice quality, and cooking quality under furrow rice cultivation. The results show that it can improve water productivity, rice quality, and reduce methane emissions without sacrificing yield.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Saseendran S. Anapalli, Srinivasa R. Pinnamaneni, Krishna N. Reddy, Ruixiu Sui, Gurbir Singh
Summary: This study demonstrates that irrigating soybean through alternate furrows yields comparable results to irrigating through every furrow in the alluvial aquifer region, thus saving approximately half of the water extracted.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mohammad Sadegh Keshavarz, Hamed Ebrahimian, Fariborz Abbasi, Enrique Playan
Summary: Micro-dams can effectively reduce water, soil, and phosphorus losses in irrigation systems. Field experiments showed that micro-dams can significantly reduce furrow soil loss and dissolved phosphorus losses, with the reduction depending on discharge and distance.
WATER AND ENVIRONMENT JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Adel Slatni, Samir Yacoubi, Taoufik Hermassi, Basma Latrech, Khemaies Zayani
Summary: This research evaluates the impact of durum-wheat sowing density on wetting front advancement and water infiltration rate, as well as durum wheat yield and furrow irrigation performance. The results show that water front advancement is inversely proportional to sowing density. Higher irrigation water productivity is recorded under SD1, while distribution uniformity increases with increasing sowing density. The lowest application efficiency values are observed under SD0 and SD3 treatments.
Article
Agronomy
Tibin Zhang, Yufeng Zou, Isaya Kisekka, Asim Biswas, Huanjie Cai
Summary: The study shows that different irrigation methods and levels significantly affect maize yield, water consumption, and economic benefits. In the study, drip irrigation at -30 kPa is recommended as a priority to replace border irrigation, as it can increase yield, reduce water usage, and achieve higher net profit.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Yi Yang, Qun Qin, Qi Li, Vinay Nangia, Bing Lan, Fei Mo, Yuncheng Liao, Yang Liu
Summary: The study investigated the effects of nitrogen fertilizer management on wheat yield, water and nitrogen utilization, and economic benefits under the ridge-furrow cropping system. The results showed that the ridge-furrow system improved soil moisture content, water productivity, and grain yield of wheat. Nitrogen reduction under the ridge-furrow system increased nitrogen uptake and fertilizer productivity without affecting water use. The BT nitrogen application model promoted nitrogen uptake and mitigated the reduction in grain protein content due to plastic film mulching.
Article
Agronomy
Ehsan Pazouki
Summary: This paper analyzes the topographical and geometrical characteristics of farmland and proposes a method for designing an efficient irrigation system based on digital elevation models and topographical data. The method segments the land into plots based on topographical characteristics and designs a network of ditches to provide water to each plot. Experimental results show that the proposed method can significantly improve irrigation efficiency by reducing water usage and irrigation time.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Amirsaleh Baghdadi, Farid Golzardi, Masoud Hashemi
Summary: Strategies such as drip irrigation and alternate furrow irrigation can reduce water consumption and improve dry matter yield and irrigation water-use efficiency. Intercropping sorghum and amaranth at a ratio of 50:50 under drip irrigation resulted in the highest forage yield and irrigation water-use efficiency. Overall, the combination of drip irrigation and intercropping sorghum and amaranth at a ratio of 50:50 is a suitable strategy for improving forage yield and quality, as well as irrigation water-use efficiency.
JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Mokganedi Tatlhego, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Maria Cristina Rulli, Paolo D'Odorico
Summary: In recent years, there have been continuous investments in new irrigation dams across Africa, resulting in the emergence of new irrigated areas. The ability to irrigate previously rainfed land increases crop production and agricultural value. This study uses crop water modeling to determine the economic benefits of irrigation in the command areas of major African dams built between 2000 and 2015, and evaluates the increase in agricultural revenues resulting from access to water for irrigation.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Zhe Zhang, Shengyao Liu, Songnan Jia, Fenghuan Du, Hao Qi, Jiaxi Li, Xinyue Song, Nan Zhao, Lanchun Nie, Fengcui Fan
Summary: The study tested the impact of negative pressure irrigation system on watermelon water productivity and fruit quality under different water pressure conditions in a greenhouse setting. Results showed that moderate water stress can improve watermelon quality and water productivity, and NPIS can save water and increase yield compared to traditional furrow irrigation systems.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Matthew Champness, Carlos Ballester, John Hornbuckle
Summary: Declining water availability is leading rice growers to adopt water-saving irrigation practices like aerobic rice in order to maintain profitability per megalitre of water input. This study aimed to investigate the effect of increasing soil moisture deficit during the rice vegetative period in a temperate Australian environment. The research found that extending soil moisture deficit beyond 15 kPa significantly delayed panicle initiation and reduced yield, but sound water productivity can still be achieved with aerobic rice cultivation in temperate climates.
Article
Agronomy
Mario Morales-Hernandez, Enrique Playan, Borja Latorre, Francisco Montoya, Cristina Madurga, Alejandro Sanchez de Rivera, Nery Zapata
Summary: The research develops a methodology to assess zebra mussel infestation in centralized pressurized networks based on monitoring and hydraulic simulation. By combining normalized pressure and distributed discharge, an optimization procedure for roughness mapping of network pipelines is achieved. Experimental roughness values under different pipe conditions were obtained to reproduce levels of zebra mussel infestation.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Amir Panahi, Amin Alizadeh-Dizaj, Hamed Ebrahimian, Amin Seyedzadeh
Summary: The presented study proposes a correction factor method to estimate the coefficients of the Kostiakov-Lewis equation, and through experimental data comparison, it is found that this method can more accurately estimate the infiltration volume compared to the traditional method.
IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Arash Ranjbar, Ali Rahimikhoob, Hamed Ebrahimian, Maryam Varavipour
Summary: This study estimated dry matter and nitrogen uptake of maize during the growing season using AquaCrop and HYDRUS-2D models, and confirmed that the combination of both models can accurately estimate the nitrogen nutrition index (NNI), playing a positive role in improving nitrogen management in sustainable agriculture.
JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Agricultural Engineering
Arash Ebadi, Omid Raja, Hamed Ebrahimian, Mohammad Reza Yazdani, Vahid Rezaverdinejad
Summary: In this study, a computational model was developed to evaluate the water balance in paddy fields. The model accurately calculated the irrigation return flow and soil moisture, showing good performance in the experimental evaluation. Managing the water balance in paddy fields can be improved through simulating water flow.
PADDY AND WATER ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Babak Dialameh, Hamed Ebrahimian, Masoud Parsinejad
Summary: This study evaluated the performance of the W-L model in estimating cumulative and lateral infiltration under different irrigation schemes. The results showed that the W-L model accurately estimated two-dimensional infiltration and performed well under different irrigation schemes. The parameter gamma had a significant impact on the estimation of infiltration.
IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mohammad Sadegh Keshavarz, Hamed Ebrahimian, Fariborz Abbasi, Enrique Playan
Summary: Micro-dams can effectively reduce water, soil, and phosphorus losses in irrigation systems. Field experiments showed that micro-dams can significantly reduce furrow soil loss and dissolved phosphorus losses, with the reduction depending on discharge and distance.
WATER AND ENVIRONMENT JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Sarem Norouzi, Morteza Sadeghi, Markus Tuller, Abdolmajid Liaghat, Scott B. Jones, Hamed Ebrahimian
Summary: This study introduces a new physical-empirical model that connects the soil water retention curve (SWRC) to soil spectral reflectance for the first time. The model is validated using measured data of 21 soils with diverse physical and hydraulic properties. It provides a new and accurate relationship between soil moisture and reflectance, and has the potential for retrieving the soil water retention curve from spectral reflectance in the shortwave infrared domain.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Abdullah Balkhi, Hamed Ebrahimian, Arezoo N. Ghameshlou, Mehrnaz Amini
Summary: This study modeled the dynamics of soil nitrogen and crop uptake under untreated wastewater irrigation, taking into account the soil nitrogen cycle. The results showed that appropriate irrigation management can reduce water deep percolation and nitrogen leaching.
MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Akbar Mehri, Amir Soltani Mohammadi, Hamed Ebrahimian, Saeid Boroomandnasab
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate and improve the performance of different surge and alternate furrow irrigation methods. It found that the variable alternate irrigation method showed the best performance during the grain maize growing season in the Jayedar Plain of Poldokhtar City (southwest of Iran).
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
N. Zapata, S. Bahddou, B. Latorre, E. Playan
Summary: Irrigated areas are facing various challenges including increasing energy costs, rising costs of seeds and agrochemicals, volatile agricultural commodities, environmental regulations, water scarcity, and increasing cost of irrigation infrastructure investments. Farmers have a wide range of irrigation design and operation alternatives, which have different effects on crop yield and profitability. Simulation models have proven useful for decision making in irrigation infrastructure, water/energy use, crop agronomy, and soil management. This research reports on new capacities of the Ador-Simulation software for comprehensive analyses of irrigation modernization, including additional on-farm irrigation methods, crop intensification, and different on-farm irrigation management options. The model was verified using theoretical case studies and applied to optimize irrigation design and management in a specific project in northeastern Spain.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Reza Delbaz, Hamed Ebrahimian, Fariborz Abbasi, Arezoo N. Ghameshlou, Abdolmajid Liaghat, Dariush Ranazadeh
Summary: This study conducted a meta-analysis to examine the effects of surface and drip fertigation methods and different fertilizer application levels on crop yield, NUE, and WP. The results showed that fertigation can significantly increase the proposed indices.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Hossein Rabbaniha, Hamed Ebrahimian
Summary: A simple method for estimating the coefficients of the Kostiakov-Lewis infiltration equation in surface irrigation is proposed and compared with other similar methods. The proposed method calculates the coefficients of the infiltration equation through an optimization method, which compares the measured and calculated infiltrated water amount. The results show that the proposed method has lower relative errors and considers the response surface of the obtained coefficients.
IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Sarem Norouzi, Morteza Sadeghi, Markus Tuller, Hamed Ebrahimian, Abdolmajid Liaghat, Scott B. Jones, Lis W. de Jonge
Summary: The soil water retention curve is a crucial soil property that plays an important role in soil water dynamics and various hydrological phenomena. Proximal sensing methods have shown potential for retrieving this property, but a physically-based approach is still lacking. This study proposes a novel physics-based laboratory method that allows direct estimation of the entire soil water retention curve using soil water content and reflectance data, providing a rapid and efficient alternative to traditional measurement methods.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Hamed Ebrahimian, Haruyuki Fujimaki, Kristina Toderich
Summary: In this study, the parameter values for sesame under drought and salinity stresses were determined using a pot experiment. Two methods, the bulk method and inverse method, were used to estimate the values of transpiration, soil moisture, salinity, and root distribution. The results showed that these parameter values could be used for irrigation scheduling and salinity management using numerical models for the studied crop.