Evaluation of the feasibility of developing autumn-sown sugar beet growing and improving water productivity in Mianab, Shushtar

Document Type : Scientific - Research

Authors

1 Assistant Professor Agricultural Engineering Research Department. Safiabad Agricultural Research and Education and Natural Resources Center, AREEO, Dezful, Iran

2 Assistant Professor of Sugar Beet Seed Institute(SBSI), Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran.

Abstract

Autumn-sown sugar beet has an important role in the crop rotation in Shush and Dezful cities, and also a significant place in the economy of the region as well as Khuzestan province. The use of autumn rainfall and high water productivity of autumn-sown sugar beet growing led to the development of the crop planting in other agricultural lands of the province, especially Shushtar city and neighboring cities. Therefore, the current study was performed with three surface irrigation management including irrigation based on grower management (I1), schedueled irrigation (I2) and alternate furrow irrigation (I3) in one of the equipped and renovated fields in the Mianab plain of Shushtar in the crop season 2019-20 in randomized complete block design with three replications. Results showed that root yield in all three treatments was similar (81.7, 91.6 and 83.1 t ha-1, respectively) and the water productivity (irrigation and rainfall) of the produced sugar in treatments I2 and I3 was similar (13.9 and 13.8 kg m-3, respectively) and higher than I1 (9.7 kg m-3). Therefore, development of sugar beet planting in the lands of Mianab is recommended by implementing scheduled irrigation (I2 treatment).

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Journal of Sugar Beet
Volume 38, Issue 2
October 2023
Pages 179-188

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