Evaluation of potato water productivity under deficit irrigation conditions using modeling approach

Subject Areas : Optimizing water consumption

mahsa  mostafavi ¹ (azad eslamic university sabzevar)
Yousef   Hasheminejhad ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Sabzevar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sabzevar, Iran)
محمد  آرمین ³ (دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد سبزوار)
Hamid  Marvi ⁴ (Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Islamic Azad University, Sabzevar Branch, Iran)
koorosh  shojaei ⁵ (Assistant Professor, Agricultural Science Research Department, Khorasan Razavi Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Mashhad/IRAN.)

Received: 2024-03-01 Accepted : 2024-04-06 Published : 2024-06-25

Keywords: Simulation, SWAP, Validation, Yield,

Abstract :

This study was conducted in order to evaluate the SWAP model to simulating yield and water productivity of potato under deficit irrigation conditions in the main potato cultivation regions of Razavi Khorasan province, including Fariman, Ghoochan, and Golmkan in 2019. First, the model performance to simulate the leaf area index and potato yield was evaluated based on the measurements taken from the fields of three locations. Then, using the evaluated model, the potato yield and water productivity were simulated under different irrigation and deficit irrigation scenarios, including irrigation based on farmer management, and 100, 90, 80, 70, 60 and 50% of potato water requirement. The results showed that the SAWP model had good performance in simulating potato leaf area index (R2>0.89 and RMSE<0.73), yield (R2=0.96 and RMSE=5.908 kg ha-1), and water productivity (R2=0.93 and RMSE=0.5 kg m-3). Compared to full irrigation, by reducing irrigation water amount to 50% of the water requirement, the potato yield decreased. The amount of yield decrease for each one percent decrease in the amount of irrigation water in Ghoochan, Fariman, and Golmkan was 255.97, 120.19 and 78.62 kg ha-1, respectively. The potato water also increased by using deficit irrigation up to 50% of the water requirement in Golmkan and Fariman and up to 90% of the water requirement in Ghoochan. In general, by adopting the deficit irrigation at the level of 80% of the water requirement in Golmakan and Fariman and 90% of the water requirement in Ghoochan, it is possible to improve the water productivity compared to full irrigation while maintaining the optimum yield.

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