<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>There are extended agricultural areas in the world that can be utilized only with irrigation for crop production. Improper irrigation may induce unfavourable processes in the soil (e.g. secondary salinization). To investigate this problem existing in Hungary as well, 12 simple drainage lysimeters – which are useful equipment for the investigation of the water and salt balance of the soil – were used in an irrigation experiment in the Research Institute of Karcag. The basic goal was to investigate the possibility of the production of a salt-sensitive crop (green bean) in areas with unfavourable agro-ecological conditions. 6 lysimeters were irrigated with deionized water, while the other 6 with saline water of 1,600 mg/l salt content. We also used a soil conditioner (Neosol) during the experiment. Analysing the effect of the irrigation quality on the plant height of green beans, it can be established that the plants irrigated with deionized water were averagely 5.3 cm taller than the plants irrigated with saline water. Similar tendencies were characteristic of the average biomass (deionized: 93.5, saline: 62.5 g), the average root mass (deionized: 9.5 g, saline: 8.2 g), the number of pods (deionized: 17.1, saline: 11.9), and the pod yield (deionized: 137.9 g, saline: 85.9 g) values. However, all these values can be improved by soil conditioning combined with the optimization of irrigation.</p></abstract>

There are extended agricultural areas in the world that can be utilized only with irrigation for crop production. Improper irrigation may induce unfavourable processes in the soil (e.g. secondary salinization). To investigate this problem existing in Hungary as well, 12 simple drainage lysimeters – which are useful equipment for the investigation of the water and salt balance of the soil – were used in an irrigation experiment in the Research Institute of Karcag. The basic goal was to investigate the possibility of the production of a salt-sensitive crop (green bean) in areas with unfavourable agro-ecological conditions. 6 lysimeters were irrigated with deionized water, while the other 6 with saline water of 1,600 mg/l salt content. We also used a soil conditioner (Neosol) during the experiment. Analysing the effect of the irrigation quality on the plant height of green beans, it can be established that the plants irrigated with deionized water were averagely 5.3 cm taller than the plants irrigated with saline water. Similar tendencies were characteristic of the average biomass (deionized: 93.5, saline: 62.5 g), the average root mass (deionized: 9.5 g, saline: 8.2 g), the number of pods (deionized: 17.1, saline: 11.9), and the pod yield (deionized: 137.9 g, saline: 85.9 g) values. However, all these values can be improved by soil conditioning combined with the optimization of irrigation.

Investigation of the possibility of green bean production under unfavourable agro-ecological conditions in lysimeters

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management, Institute of Horticultural Science

Research Institute of Karcag, Institutes for Agricultural Research and Educational Farm

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Agriculture and Environment

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There are extended agricultural areas in the world that can be utilized only with irrigation for crop production. Improper irrigation may induce unfavourable...

Investigation of the possibility of green bean production under unfavourable agro-ecological conditions in lysimeters

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 72 - 82

Received: May 15, 2019

Accepted: Jun 22, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausae-2019-0007

Keywords
irrigation, secondary salinization, vegetable production

© 2019 Lúcia Sinka et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Investigation of the possibility of green bean production under unfavourable agro-ecological conditions in lysimeters

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 72 - 82

Received: May 15, 2019

Accepted: Jun 22, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausae-2019-0007

Keywordsirrigation, secondary salinization, vegetable production

© 2019 Lúcia Sinka et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
irrigation, secondary salinization, vegetable production