El-Ramady, H. and Alshaal, T. and Amer, M. and Aiad, M. and Elhawad, N. (2013) Significance of nutrient and water sustainability: Effect of land leveling, cut off irrigation and N- fertilization on maize yield. In: Jahrestagung der DBG 2013: Böden - Lebensgrundlage und Verantwortung, 07.-12.09.2013, Rostock.
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A wide variety of soil, nutrient, and irrigation management practices are available to farmers, most of them concerned with the basic building block of agriculture, the soil. Soil management practices include the tillage and cropping systems and crop rotations used on a farm. Therefore, sustainable crop production should be managed to enhance soil ecosystems, improving soil health and fertility and reversing degradation and pollution of land. As well as, it should be contributed to maintaining and improving, and efficiently utilizing, water resources (quantity, access, stability and quality), especially promoting practices that minimize risks of water pollution from agrochemicals and save water. It is well documented that fertilizer N is the most costly input in maize production and its effective management is a major challenge for improving productivity and environmental sustainability. In present study, the effect of land leveling, cut off irrigation and N- fertilizer on yield and yield components of maize have been studied. The results showed that the highest yield of grain and straw of maize was obtained with using N-fertilization rate 288 kg N ha-1, land levelling rate 0.01 % of surface slope and cut off stream of irrigation rate 75%. The results of this study suggest that, irrigation application efficiency (%) increased from 71 % (for control) to 80 % for cut off 75 % of stream irrigation and land leveling with 0.01 % slope. Thus, about 20 % from the applied water for irrigation is saved by the previous treatments.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Contribution to "Reports of the DBG") |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Maize, nitrogen, irrigation application efficiency, cut off irrigation |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email dbg@dbges.de |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2013 15:41 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2013 15:41 |
| URI: | https://eprints.dbges.de/id/eprint/954 |
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