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Soil Water and Salt Transport in Severe Saline–Alkali Soil after Ditching under Subsurface Pipe Drainage Conditions

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  • Feng Tian

    (College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
    High Efficiency Water-Saving Technology and Equipment and Soil and Water Environment Effect in Engineering Research Center of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hohhot 010018, China)

  • Haibin Shi

    (College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
    High Efficiency Water-Saving Technology and Equipment and Soil and Water Environment Effect in Engineering Research Center of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hohhot 010018, China)

  • Qingfeng Miao

    (College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
    High Efficiency Water-Saving Technology and Equipment and Soil and Water Environment Effect in Engineering Research Center of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hohhot 010018, China)

  • Ruiping Li

    (College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
    High Efficiency Water-Saving Technology and Equipment and Soil and Water Environment Effect in Engineering Research Center of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hohhot 010018, China)

  • Jie Duan

    (College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
    High Efficiency Water-Saving Technology and Equipment and Soil and Water Environment Effect in Engineering Research Center of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hohhot 010018, China)

  • Xu Dou

    (College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
    High Efficiency Water-Saving Technology and Equipment and Soil and Water Environment Effect in Engineering Research Center of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hohhot 010018, China)

  • Weiying Feng

    (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China)

Abstract

The subsurface pipe drainage project is essential in farmland drainage operations and is globally recognized as an effective saline–alkali land improvement measure owing to its efficient drainage capacity and low land occupation rate. This study aimed to establish enhanced methods for improving saline–alkali land by combining ditching with subsurface pipe drainage. The ditching was conducted at a depth of 60 cm based on the existing subsurface pipe arrangement. The calibrated DRAINMOD-S model was employed to simulate the test area with different ditching depths and subsurface pipe arrangement parameters. Furthermore, the law of soil water and salt transport in the subsurface pipe drainage system at different ditching depths was investigated. After ditching, the total unit drainage volume of leaching increased by an average of 14.65% over two years and the water storage of different soil layers in the different plots decreased by 1.37–1.48 mm on average. Ditching demonstrated a superior salt-leaching effect in areas with subsurface pipe layouts. The soil desalination rate of different soil layers increased by 6.40–13.40% on average, with a more significant impact on the surface soil desalination rate. The effect of the increased desalination rate was more apparent as the ditching depth increased. However, as the buried depth of the subsurface pipe increased, the relationship between the ditching depth and soil desalination rate became insignificant. Ditching improved the salt-leaching effect of subsurface pipe drainage projects, which can effectively reduce the cost of subsurface pipe burial, consequently promoting subsurface pipe use.

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  • Feng Tian & Haibin Shi & Qingfeng Miao & Ruiping Li & Jie Duan & Xu Dou & Weiying Feng, 2023. "Soil Water and Salt Transport in Severe Saline–Alkali Soil after Ditching under Subsurface Pipe Drainage Conditions," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(12), pages 1-20, November.
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