The present study was carried out during the autumn
seasons 2014 and 2015 at Shandaweel Agriculture Research
Station, Sohag Governorate, Egypt, to evaluate the effect of
irrigation treatments and cultivation methods on vegetative
growth, yield, yield components and quality of common bean
(Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivar “Paulista" under Sohag
conditions. A split plot design with three replications was
used, where irrigation treatments (100%, 75% and 50%
recommended irrigation), the three irrigations were randomly
assigned in the main plots. The four cultivation methods (T1,
T2, T3 and T4) were randomly distributed in sub-plots. The
three irrigation treatments affected significantly on the most
studied characters, in both seasons. The highest values of fresh
pod yield were obtained at the 75% recommended irrigation
treatment (4.084 and 4.114 ton/fed, in 2014 and 2015 seasons,
respectively). It was affected significantly by cultivation
methods on the most studied characters, in both seasons. The
highest values of fresh pods yield were obtained at the sowing
on one side of 60 cm wide ridge with closing the end of every
two ridges in the plot after the first irrigation (4.107 and 4.051
ton/fed, in the first and the second seasons, respectively)
without significant differences with sowing on one side of 60
cm wide ridge or sowing on the two sides of 120 cm wide
raised beds. The interactions of the 100% recommended
irrigation treatment with some cultivation methods (T1, T2
and T3) or the interactions of the 75% recommended irrigation
treatment with some cultivation methods (T1, T2, T3 and T4)
gave the highest values of fresh pods yield than the other
combinations, in both seasons without significant differences
between them. Generally, we can be sowing common bean on
one side of 60 cm wide ridge with closing the end of every
two ridges in the plot after the first irrigation or sowing on the
two sides of 120 cm wide raised beds with irrigation by 75%
the recommended irrigation.