THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT IRRIGATION SYSTEMS AND WATERING REGIMES ON DATE PALM PRODUCTION AND FRUIT QUALITY | ||
| Journal of Plant Production | ||
| Article 18, Volume 29, Issue 7, July 2004, Pages 4115-4123 PDF (2.4 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jpp.2004.238772 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Y. Y. Aldakheel,1; Halah M. Sheikhany2 | ||
| 1Water Studies Center, King Faisal University, Hofuf, Saudi Arabia | ||
| 2Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Faisal University, Hofuf, Saudi Arabia | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of irrigation systems and watering regimes on date palm production and fruit quality, under the environmental conditions of AI-hassa oasis, Saudi Arabia. The irrigation systems used in this study were the bubbler irrigation, traditional flood irrigation and the trickle irrigation. Two types of date palm varieties were studied Kha/as and Rezaiz during the season of 2000 and 2001 using split- plot design the irrigation systems were the main plots and the varieties were the split-plots with four replicates. Data indicated that vegetative and reproductive growths of date palms were significantly affected by irrigation systems (flood, bubbler and tickle irrigation). Drip irrigation significantly increased yield and fruit quality, while no response was obtained under the three irrigation regimes during this study between the two varieties. It was recommended that tickle irrigation systems are the most convenient under the environmental condition of Al-Hassa oasis for the irrigation of date palm trees. | ||
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