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Enhancing field scale water productivity for several rice cultivars under limited water supply

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Rice production is one of the largest consumer of water in agriculture. In general, the irrigation water productivity (WPI) is low in paddy fields. In order to improve WPI, a field experiment was conducted in central of Iran during 2009–2010. The experiment was consisted of three irrigation managements and eight advanced rice cultivars (Gerdeh (V 1), Zayande-roud (V 2), Sazandegi (V 3), Hasani (V 4), 67–97 (V 5), 67–113 (V 6), 67–47 (V 7), and 67–72 (V 8)) in a split plot design with three replications. The irrigation treatments were I 1 and I 2: permanent flooding under 3.5 and 2.2 cm water depth, respectively, and I 3: 0–1.5 cm alternative wetting and drying. To explore deficit irrigation for improved WPI, SWAP model was calibrated using intensive measured data for the foregoing years. The average normalized root-mean-square deviation of yield during calibration was 0.03% and during validation was 4.94% indicating acceptable calibration and validation of the model. WPI for all cultivars were enhanced up to 61% by applying 50% deficit irrigation. On this irrigation regime, V 2 and V 6 provided the highest WPI (0.84 and 0.79 kg m−3, respectively) whereas V 4 and V 8 yielded the lowest (0.50 and 0.57 kg m−3, respectively). The results indicated that rice cultivars (V 2 and V 6) are the best option with the highest WPI in the irrigation district and calibrated model was able to effectively simulate the crop growth under water deficit conditions.

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  1. Department of Water Engineering, Urmia University, Sero Road, Nazlou Campus, Urmia, P. O. Box: 165, Iran

    Roza Jonubi & Vahid Rezaverdinejad

  2. Agricultural Engineering Research Department, Isfahan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Isfahan, Iran

    Hamidreza Salemi

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Jonubi, R., Rezaverdinejad, V. & Salemi, H. Enhancing field scale water productivity for several rice cultivars under limited water supply. Paddy Water Environ 16, 125–141 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10333-017-0622-y

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