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Impact of Irrigation with Drainage Water on the Productivity of Forage Maize Grown on Calcareous Soil

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Horticulture
Soil science

Abstract

A greenhouse experiment was conducted to mitigate the deterious effect of drainage water on growth and nutrient uptake of forage maize grown on Borg ElArab calcareous soil. The soil   has high CaCo3 content and irrigated with well water (22.5 %) and drainage water (27.5 %). This practice increased calcium carbonate content in soils and increased electric conductivity values to 3.65 dS/m and 9.30 dS/m in soils irrigated with well water and drainage water, respectively. The obtained results indicated that the saline water  have a significant effect on maize fodder, silage quality and maize plant, seed weight, plant height, root / shoot ratio. The forage maize and maize silages yield were significantly reduced at different irrigation water treatments. The forage yield, silages index and forage index (%) also significantly reduced. The mean forage index  was found to be 0. 36 and was not affected by well water salinity level. In addition, the results showed that, the maize silages with lower content of crude fiber are considered as important energy source for feeding. The content of acetic acid was lower in silages at different salinity levels and the values were 25.34, 21.33, 11.27 and 11.27 S0, S1, S2 and S3. Direct cause for reduction of maize silages quality was the higher content of acetic acid. 

DOI

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2016.2505

Keywords

saline water, forage maize, maize silages, Calcareous soil

Authors

First Name

Saad

Last Name

Abdelrazek

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.A.E

Affiliation

Soil Salinity and Alklinity Department, Alexandria Soil, Water and Environment Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center (ARC), Giza, Egypt

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samad_saad@yahoo.com

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Ahmed

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E.M. Shouman

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Institute of Environment Studies Research –Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

H.El-Deep

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Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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First Name

Waleed

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M. B. Darwisch

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Department of natural resources Evaluation, planning and development Environmental Studies and Researches Institute, Sadat City University, Sadat, Egypt

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Volume

37

Article Issue

July-September

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353

Issue Date

2016-09-01

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2016-07-25

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2016-09-01

Page Start

396

Page End

406

Print ISSN

1110-0176

Online ISSN

2536-9784

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Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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https://asejaiqjsae.journals.ekb.eg/

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Impact of Irrigation with Drainage Water on the Productivity of Forage Maize Grown on Calcareous Soil

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22 Jan 2023