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STUDY THE EFFECT OF PARTIAL ROOTZONE DRYING IRRIGATION ON TOMATO CROP UNDER EGYPTIAN CONDITION

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Agricultural Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

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Agriculture is the main user of water, because the agriculture uses about 85% of available freshwater resources worldwide. This percentage will continue to be dominant in water consumption because of population growth and increased food demand. In Egypt, agriculture uses more than 80% of the available water. In irrigated agriculture, the right way to save irrigation water is to increase water use efficiency through better irrigation management (Toureiro et al., 2016).Water management is the most significant element to increase crop productivity. There is an urgent need to create strategies based on science and technology for sustainable use of water, including technical, agronomic, managerial, and institutional improvements (Jury and Vaux, 2007). Worldwide, tomato is the second most valuable vegetable crop next to potato (FAO, 2018). In Egypt, tomato is one of the leading vegetable in economic importance. The present study was conducted in the farm of the agriculture faculty, Menoufia University, Shebin EL-Kom during two growing seasons (summer season 2015 and winter season 2016). The main goal of this study was to investigate the effect of the partial rootzone drying irrigation on soil moisture, tomato yield and water use efficiency. The study was carried out to compare partial rootzone drying and the conventional irrigation under three levels of water application rate (100%, 75% and 50% of crop evapotranspiration, ETC), and covering conditions (covering and non-covering conditions). The partial rootzone drying irrigation and the covering condition increased the soil moisture content in soil profile, the percentage of marketable yield, and improved the water use efficiency compared with the conventional irrigation (CI) methods especially, when applying under deficit water application.

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10.21608/mjae.2018.95548

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Conventional irrigation, Partial Rootzone Drying, tomato plant, water use efficiency, Deficit Water Application

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Gomaa

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Professor, Agricultural Engineering Department, Menoufia University, Egypt

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Samak

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Lecturer, Agricultural Engineering Department, Menoufia University, Egypt

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Elshkhaby

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Agricultural engineering Institute, Agricultural Research Center., Egypt

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35

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3

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2018-07-01

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2020-06-13

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2018-07-01

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881

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898

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1687-384X

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2636-3062

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MJAE_Volume 35_Issue 3_Pages 881-898.pdf

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Misr Journal of Agricultural Engineering

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STUDY THE EFFECT OF PARTIAL ROOTZONE DRYING IRRIGATION ON TOMATO CROP UNDER EGYPTIAN CONDITION

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23 Jan 2023