Investigation of Polyethylene Mulch on Improvement of Tomato Water Use Efficiency using AquaCrop Model

Subject Areas : Journal of Plant Ecophysiology

razieh Eskandaripour ¹ , afshin khorsand ² , vahid rezaverdinejad ³ , kamran zeinalzazdeh ⁴ , amir Norjoo ⁵

1 - M.Sc. Student of irrigation and drainage at Urmia University, Iran
2 - Ph.D. Student Department of Water Engineering, Urmia University
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Water Engineering, Urmia University
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Water Engineering, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
5 - Researcher, West Azerbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center, Urmia, Iran

Received: 2017-04-26 Accepted : 2018-04-26 Published : 2019-12-22

Keywords: Planting Density, Polyethylene Mulch, Kahriz of Urmia, Soil Water Content,

Abstract :

In this study, the Aquacrop model was evaluated to predict the crop yield and the water use efficiency of tomato in climatic conditions Kahriz region, and use mulch cover was modeling. The research was carried out at split plot factorial experiment based on randomized design. The factors of between-row spacing (100 and 120cm), in-row spacing (30 and 40cm) and black plastic were studied. The treatment of black plastic were: full ridge and half furrow were covered by mulch; full furrow and half ridge were covered by mulch and control (no mulch). Every plot was irrigated separately. The model was calibrated by the use of first year’s data, and as a result on the base of R2 (0.99) and NRMSE (0.19). Efficiency parameters, it is obvious that Aquacrop appropriately simulates the crop yield, WUE and soil water content of the root zone for tomato under different planting densities and three types of mulch.

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