COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT FLOOD IRRIGATION METHODS AND MOISTURE REGIMES ON FRUITFUL "ANNA" APPLE TREES | ||
| Menoufia Journal of Plant Production | ||
| Article 3, Volume 5, Issue 7, October 2020, Pages 311-324 PDF (989.6 K) | ||
| Document Type: original papers | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mjppf.2020.171526 | ||
| Authors | ||
| M. A. Fathi1; S.M. Hussien1; D. R. Darwesh1; T. A. Eid2 | ||
| 1Horticulture Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt | ||
| 2Soil, Water and Environment Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A field experiment was conducted at El-Kanater Horticultural Research Station, Egypt in the seasons of 2017 and 2018 to study raised bed cultivation system for apple trees production is a new technique nowadays. The obtained results indicated that raised bed 200 cm (i.e.100 cm. from each side of the pseudo stems) was superior than 100 cm (i.e.50 cm. from each side of the pseudo stems) which was better than flat irrigation. The treatment of raised bed 200 cm significantly increased water use efficiency, vegetative growth parameters, yield about (21 and 20 % both seasons), fruit quality, leaf nutrient composition (N, P and K) and root distribution. Raised bed 200 cmtreatment effectively saves 23.6 % and 23.2 % (1439.5 and 1452.1 m3/fed./year) through the two studied seasons. So, raised bed 200 cmtreatment is recommended for apple growers on clay loamy soil. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Apple trees; Raised Bed Cultivation; Water Use Efficiency; Fruit set and Yield | ||
|
Supplementary Files
|
||
|
Statistics Article View: 122 PDF Download: 424 |
||
