[1]YAN Yingyu.Cotton Water Requirements and Water Saving Benefit Under Mulched Drip Irrigation in Tarim Irrigated Area[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2016,23(01):123-127.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
23
Number of periods:
2016 01
Page number:
123-127
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Public date:
2016-02-28
- Title:
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Cotton Water Requirements and Water Saving Benefit Under Mulched Drip Irrigation in Tarim Irrigated Area
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YAN Yingyu
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General Station of Soil and Water Conversation and Ecoenvironmental Monitoring of Xinjiang, Urumqi 830000, China
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- Keywords:
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cotton water requirements; cotton water consumption; water saving Benefit; drip irrigation under mulching
- CLC:
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S562;S274.3
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- Abstract:
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The primary purpose of this research was to give suitable irrigation program according to the growth period and water requirement. A cotton field experiment with mulched drip irrigation was conducted in Tarim Irrigated Area of Xinjiang in 2008. Water balance method was adopted to investigate the water requirement and water consumption pattern of cotton under mulched drip irrigation in Tarim Irrigated Area. Statistical analysis of experimental data of irrigation indicates that the relationship between yield of cotton and irrigation presents a quadratic parabola. We fit the model of cotton water production on the basis of field experimental data of cotton. And the analysis on water saving benefit of cotton under mulched drip irrigation was carried out. Results indicate that water requirements for the irrigated cotton are 543 mm in Tarim Irrigated Area; the water requirement at the seedling stage is 252 mm, it is 186 mm at budding stage, it is 316 mm at bolling stage and it is 139 mm at wadding stage: the irrigation amount determines the spatial distribution of soil moisture and water consumption during cotton life cycle. However, water consumption at different growth stages was inconsistent with irrigation. Quantitatively, the water consumed by cotton decreases upon the increase of irrigation amount. From the perspective of water saving, the maximal water use efficiency can reach to 3 091 m3/hm2. But the highest cotton yield demands 3 464 m3/hm2 irrigation water. In summary, compared to the conventional drip irrigation, a number of benefits in water saving and yield increase were observed when using plastic mulch. At the same amount of irrigation, the cotton yield with plastic mulch was 30.2% higher than conventional practices, and the efficiency of water utilization increased by 30.2%. While at the same yield level, 29.3% of water was saved by using plastic mulch, and the efficiency increased by 41.5%.