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Water and land productivities of wheat and food legumes with deficit supplemental irrigation in a Mediterranean environment

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  • Karrou, M.
  • Oweis, T.

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Selecting appropriate crops and applying deficit irrigation can help increase water productivity in water-limited regions such as the Mediterranean. The objective of this study was to develop water production functions of major cereal and legume crops under the same environmental and management conditions. Bread and durum wheat, faba bean, chickpea, and lentil were grown under full supplemental irrigation (FSI), two deficit irrigations levels of 2/3 of FSI (2/3SI) and 1/3 of FSI (1/3SI), and under rainfed conditions (no irrigation). In average, the actual evapotranspirations (ETs) under FSI were 549, 552, 365, 451 and 297mm, for bread wheat, durum wheat, faba bean, chickpea and lentil, respectively. For the same crops, they were 463, 458, 330, 393 and 277mm for the treatment 2/3SI and 357, 351, 265, 318 and 244mm for the treatment 1/3SI, respectively. In the case of the rainfed treatment, ETs for the mentioned crops were 250, 251, 227, 237 and 215mm, respectively. The experiment was conducted at the ICARDA experimental station at Tel Hadya, near Aleppo, Syria, over three growing seasons from 2007 to 2010.

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  • Karrou, M. & Oweis, T., 2012. "Water and land productivities of wheat and food legumes with deficit supplemental irrigation in a Mediterranean environment," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 107(C), pages 94-103.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:agiwat:v:107:y:2012:i:c:p:94-103
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2012.01.014
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