Different soil tillage systems in the economy of water and productivity of the winter bean crop irrigated.

Author(s)

Douglas Roberto Bizari

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola
• Defense date: 2007-12-02

Examining board members

Edson Eiji Matsura; Marcos Vinicius Folegatti; Zigomar Menezes de Souza

• Advisor: Edson Eiji Matsura

Abstract

The intensification of soil use by the techniques as the irrigation has providing annual increase crops number and reduction of the enterprise risks. However, the irrigated agriculture needs to be more efficiency, through use the no tillage system that promote increases the productivity e reduction of the applied water. The aim this research was to demonstrate that irrigation management in no tillage system with bean crop (cultivar Carioca precoce) contributes whit the preservation of water resources once the mulching and others characteristics presented by this soil tillage promotes the reduction of the numbers of irrigations. This experiment was carried in the Experimental Field of University of Agricultural Engineering of UNICAMP, in Campinas, SP, in the period of June to September of 2006, in a Latossolo Vermelho distroférrico, submitted to the following treatments: no tillage system 1 (SPD 1), no tillage system 2 (SPD 2), tillage system 1 (PC 1) and tillage system 2 (PC 2), using a sprinkle irrigation system managed with tensiometers. The results showed that the SPD treatments presented smaller evapotranspiration values during practically all the crops cycle. This difference was more accentuated in the flowering phase, showing the importance of the maintenance of the mulching. The SPD treatments also presented the largest values of production associated with a smaller quantity of applied water. These results evidenciated that, in this study, the SPD treatment presents a higher water use efficiency than PC treatments (AU)