IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/agiwat/v242y2020ics0378377420303115.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Nitrogen composition in furrow irrigated run-off water

Author

Listed:
  • Macdonald, B.C.T.
  • Nachimuthu, G.
  • Chang, Y.F
  • Nadelko, A.J.
  • Tuomi, S.
  • Watkins, M.

Abstract

Furrow irrigation in cotton growing vertosols is the most preferred method in Australia. After fertilisation, irrigation water interacts with the soil which can dissolve nitrogen (N) compounds into the run-off water. The run-off or tail water that leaves the field is enriched with N and can reduce crop N use efficiency. During 2014−2015 and 2015−2016 N solute concentration in the irrigation water and run-off was measured in a tillage cropping rotation experiment. In the continuous cotton treatments (2014−2015) when urea was broadcast on the surface of furrow irrigated cotton system, 11 % of the applied fertiliser (260 kg N ha−1) was lost from the field in the tail water. Most of the losses from the soil occurred during the first irrigation as nitrate and urea. The irrigation water supplied 10 kg dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) kg N ha−1 to the field. During 2015−2016, when subsurface banding of the urea was used, losses equated to 5 % of applied N, in irrigated continuous cotton treatments. In a second crop treatment, an irrigated maize rotation, the broadcasted urea was leached into the soil by rainfall before a 100 mm irrigation event. The run-off losses were less than the sub surface urea banding and in this treatment were 0.5 % of the applied fertiliser. The study shows that DON-N, NO3-N, NH4-N, Urea-N are dissolved from the soil in cotton production systems and lost to furrow irrigation run-off. This dissolved N maybe denitrified in the cotton irrigation network if the tail water is not reused quickly. The results show that N contributions from irrigation water need to be accounted for overall N budget of the cotton farm to improve the N use efficiency.

Suggested Citation

  • Macdonald, B.C.T. & Nachimuthu, G. & Chang, Y.F & Nadelko, A.J. & Tuomi, S. & Watkins, M., 2020. "Nitrogen composition in furrow irrigated run-off water," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 242(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:agiwat:v:242:y:2020:i:c:s0378377420303115
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106399
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377420303115
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106399?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Siyal, Altaf A. & Bristow, Keith L. & Šimůnek, Jirka, 2012. "Minimizing nitrogen leaching from furrow irrigation through novel fertilizer placement and soil surface management strategies," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 115(C), pages 242-251.
    2. J. Michael Beman & Kevin R. Arrigo & Pamela A. Matson, 2005. "Agricultural runoff fuels large phytoplankton blooms in vulnerable areas of the ocean," Nature, Nature, vol. 434(7030), pages 211-214, March.
    3. Macdonald, B.C.T & Chang, Y.F. & Warneke, S., 2016. "Potential contributions of surface and ground water to nitrous oxide emissions from irrigated cotton production systems," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 168(C), pages 78-84.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mathy Sane & Miroslav Hajek & Chukwudi Nwaogu & Ratna Chrismiari Purwestri, 2021. "Subsidy as An Economic Instrument for Environmental Protection: A Case of Global Fertilizer Use," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-20, August.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Mahmood, Tariq & ur Rahman, Mati & Arfan, Muhammad & Kayani, Sadaf-Ilyas & Sun, Mei, 2023. "Mathematical study of Algae as a bio-fertilizer using fractal–fractional dynamic model," Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), Elsevier, vol. 203(C), pages 207-222.
    2. Nguyen, Van Thang & Huynh, Nguyen Phong Thu & Vu, Ngoc Ba & Le, Cong Hao, 2021. "Long-term accumulation of 226Ra in some agricultural soils based on model assessment," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 243(C).
    3. Heimann, Tobias, 2019. "Bioeconomy and SDGs: Does the Bioeconomy Support the Achievement of the SDGs?," Open Access Publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy 225998, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    4. Paul J. A. Withers & Colin Neal & Helen P. Jarvie & Donnacha G. Doody, 2014. "Agriculture and Eutrophication: Where Do We Go from Here?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 6(9), pages 1-23, September.
    5. Li, Jungai & Liu, Hongbin & Wang, Hongyuan & Luo, Jiafa & Zhang, Xuejun & Liu, Zhaohui & Zhang, Yitao & Zhai, Limei & Lei, Qiuliang & Ren, Tianzhi & Li, Yan & Bashir, Muhammad Amjad, 2018. "Managing irrigation and fertilization for the sustainable cultivation of greenhouse vegetables," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 210(C), pages 354-363.
    6. Slamini, Maryam & Sbaa, Mohamed & Arabi, Mourad & Darmous, Ahmed, 2022. "Review on Partial Root-zone Drying irrigation: Impact on crop yield, soil and water pollution," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 271(C).
    7. Barakat, Mohammad & Cheviron, Bruno & Angulo-Jaramillo, Rafael, 2016. "Influence of the irrigation technique and strategies on the nitrogen cycle and budget: A review," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 178(C), pages 225-238.
    8. Liu, Zhi-bin & Liu, Shutang & Wang, Wen & Wang, Da, 2021. "Effect of herd-taxis on the self-organization of a plankton community," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    9. Mohammadi, Adel & Besharat, Sina & Abbasi, Fariborz, 2019. "Effects of irrigation and fertilization management on reducing nitrogen losses and increasing corn yield under furrow irrigation," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 213(C), pages 1116-1129.
    10. Li, Yong & Šimůnek, Jirka & Jing, Longfei & Zhang, Zhentin & Ni, Lixiao, 2014. "Evaluation of water movement and water losses in a direct-seeded-rice field experiment using Hydrus-1D," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 142(C), pages 38-46.
    11. Wang, Jun & Huang, Guanhua & Zhan, Hongbin & Mohanty, Binayak P. & Zheng, Jianhua & Huang, Quanzhong & Xu, Xu, 2014. "Evaluation of soil water dynamics and crop yield under furrow irrigation with a two-dimensional flow and crop growth coupled model," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 10-22.
    12. Sun Kyeong Choi & Tae Hyeon Kim & Yun Hee Kang & Sangil Kim & Tae-Hoon Kim & Jang Kyun Kim & Taehee Lee & Young Baek Son & Hyuk Je Lee & Sang Rul Park, 2021. "Changes in the Dynamics and Nutrient Budget of a Macroalgal Community Exposed to Land-Based Fish Farm Discharge Off Jeju Island, Korea," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(21), pages 1-18, October.
    13. Liu, Kun & Huang, Guanhua & Xu, Xu & Xiong, Yunwu & Huang, Quanzhong & Šimůnek, Jiří, 2019. "A coupled model for simulating water flow and solute transport in furrow irrigation," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 213(C), pages 792-802.
    14. Bristow, Keith L. & Šimůnek, Jirka & Helalia, Sarah A. & Siyal, Altaf A., 2020. "Numerical simulations of the effects furrow surface conditions and fertilizer locations have on plant nitrogen and water use in furrow irrigated systems," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 232(C).
    15. Iqbal, Shahid & Guber, Andrey K. & Khan, Haroon Zaman, 2016. "Estimating nitrogen leaching losses after compost application in furrow irrigated soils of Pakistan using HYDRUS-2D software," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 168(C), pages 85-95.
    16. Bertrand Hirel & Thierry Tétu & Peter J. Lea & Frédéric Dubois, 2011. "Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Crops for Sustainable Agriculture," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 3(9), pages 1-34, September.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:agiwat:v:242:y:2020:i:c:s0378377420303115. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/agwat .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.