BEET PRODUCTION WITH SALT WATER IRRIGATION

Authors

  • Alexsandro Oliveira da Silva
  • Antônio Evaldo Klar
  • Ênio Farias de França e Silva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13083/reveng.v21i3.391

Keywords:

Beta vulgaris L., condutividade elétrica, evapotranspiração

Abstract

The use of low quality water for agriculture should be performed with care to avoiding excessive accumulation of salts in the soil so not to harm crop development. In order to evaluate the performance of beets under the infl uence of low water quality, an experiment was conducted in a greenhouse of the Department of Agricultural Engineering, Universidade Estadual Paulista in Botucatu, Brazil, from April to July 2012. We used the beet (Beta vulgaris L.) in a completely randomized design with 6 treatments and 5 replications, totaling 30 plots. Treatments consisted of NaCl solutions at different concentrations (2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 dS m-1) plus a control treatment corresponding to water with no additional salt and electrical conductivity of roughly 0.26 dS m-1. Variables evaluated were total production, commercial production, plant height, number of plants and root diameter. Production of the beet crop was affected by the increasing salinity of irrigation water, characterized by reduced root production of the beets. Total and commercial production showed reductions of 8.82 and 12.2% in accordance with the unit increase of salinity.

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Published

2013-06-25

How to Cite

Silva, A. O. da, Klar, A. E., & Silva, Ênio F. de F. e. (2013). BEET PRODUCTION WITH SALT WATER IRRIGATION. Engineering in Agriculture, 21(3), 271–279. https://doi.org/10.13083/reveng.v21i3.391

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 3 (2013)

Section

Water and environmental resources

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