O Evapotranspiration, crop coefficient and water use efficiency of eggplant under different deficit irrigation levels in a semi-arid region
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irrigation management, Solanum melongena L, semi-arid, hydric stressAbstract
Eggplant is an important crop in vegetable production in different regions of the world. The objective of this research was to determine the crop coefficient, crop evapotranspiration through soil water balance, efficiency and water use for eggplant. The experiment was carried out in two harvests (rainy and dry) and were distributed in two blocks, to determine the effects of rainfed cultivation and the effect of water stress with irrigation depths for the treatments of 100% (T1), 80% ( T2), 60% (T3), 40% (T4) and 20% (T5) of reference evapotranspiration (ETo) for daily water replacement. The values of the cultivation coefficient for the sandy loam soil were 0.63, 0.98,1,10,0.92 and for the loam soil they were 0.53,0.68,1.05,0, 79 for the initial, vegetative, production and maturation phases, respectively. Crop evapotranspiration varied according to water availability in the soil, water efficiency and use was significant for the treatment with the highest productivity T1BI with 15.2 kg m-3 and in T1BII with 8.5 kg m-3. The highest productivity for the rainfed cycle was 9.0 kg m2 and, for the irrigated cycle, treatments T1BI with 5.0 kg m2 and T2BI with 4.0 kg m2, T1BII with 3.0 kg m2 and T2BII with 2 .1 kg m2. The most efficient irrigation depths in estimating production for the treatments were T1BI with 51 ton h-¹ and T1BII with 28 ton h-¹, and T2BI with 20 ton h-¹ and T2BII with 39 ton h-¹ of eggplants in region with a semi-arid climate.
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