Plant Soil Environ., 2023, 69(11):554-565 | DOI: 10.17221/105/2023-PSE

Integrated effect of residue management and drip irrigation on crop growth and water productivity of direct seeded riceOriginal Paper

Kanwar Barjinder Singh1, Gurpreet Singh1, Rajeev Kumar Gupta2, Ahmed A. Al-Othman3, Abed Alataway4, Ahmed Z. Dewidar4, Mohamed M. Mattar4
1 Department of Soil Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
2 School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
3 Department of Agricultural Engineering, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
4 Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water Chair, Prince Sultan Institute for Environmental, Water and Desert Research, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Crop residue management and water saving are the two major issues for the sustainability of the rice-wheat cropping system. Therefore, a two-year field experiment was conducted in a split-plot design to study the combined effect of three rice residues (residue incorporation (RI), residue standing (RS) and residue removal (RR) and two wheat residue incorporation (WI) and residue removal (WR) management in main plots and two irrigation regimes, i.e., flood (F) and surface drip (SD) in subplots on the growth and water productivity of direct seeded rice (DSR). During both years, RI-WI resulted in significantly higher plant height (PH), leaf area index (LAI) and dry matter accumulation (DMA) than in other residue management treatments. Drip irrigation significantly increased PH, LAI, DMA grain yield, straw, and biological yield, along with a 9.6% irrigation water savings over flood irrigation. During both years, grain yield, straw and biological yield of DSR were significantly higher in RI-WI than in RR-WR and RR-WI. RI-WI had significantly greater apparent water productivity (AWP) and actual water productivity (RWP) of DSR. Drip irrigation had significantly higher AWP and RWP during both years than flood irrigation except RWP during 2017. Transpiration efficiency (TE) in rice residue incorporation was significantly higher than in rice residue standing and removal. During both years, the TE of drip irrigation was also significantly higher than flood irrigation. So, incorporating rice and wheat residues along with drip irrigation improves crop growth and water productivity.

Keywords: Oryza sativa L.; production; groundwater; precipitation; nutrient

Received: March 9, 2023; Revised: November 9, 2023; Accepted: November 13, 2023; Prepublished online: November 25, 2023; Published: November 30, 2023  Show citation

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Barjinder Singh K, Singh G, Kumar Gupta R, Al-Othman AA, Alataway A, Dewidar AZ, Mattar MM. Integrated effect of residue management and drip irrigation on crop growth and water productivity of direct seeded rice. Plant Soil Environ. 2023;69(11):554-565. doi: 10.17221/105/2023-PSE.
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