Effects of water-fertilizer coupling regimes on maize yield and water and fertilizer use efficiency under mulched drip irrigation in Jingdian irrigation district of China

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Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2025, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (9): 1849-1859.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20250037

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Effects of water-fertilizer coupling regimes on maize yield and water and fertilizer use efficiency under mulched drip irrigation in Jingdian irrigation district of China

YAN Peizhong¹(), CHEN Liang²^,³, ZHANG Shengyin⁴, LIU Bin¹^,³^,^*()

¹ Gansu Jingtaichuan Irrigation Water Resources Utilization Center, Jingtai 730400, Gansu, China
² Gansu Academy of Agri-Engineering Technology, Wuwei 733006, Gansu, China
³ College of Horticulture, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
⁴ Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730099, China

Received:2025-01-10 Online:2025-09-25 Published:2025-10-15
Contact: LIU Bin

Abstract

Abstract:

The development of modern agricultural water-saving technology is an effective way to solve the water shortage and improve the efficiency of water resources in the arid regions of northwest China. In order to study the effect of water-fertilizer coupling of drip irrigation under sub-membrane drip irrigation on the growth and yield of maize in Jingdian irrigation area and to find out a suitable regime, a plot experiment was conducted. The local drip irrigation amount and fertilizer application rate were used as control (CK), and 3 soil water matric potentials [-10 kPa (W1), -20 kPa (W2), -30 kPa (W3)] and 3 fertilizer applicatin rates [85% (F1), 75% (F2) and 65% (F3) of the control] were set. It was shown that W2F2 treatment exhibited the best performance under the experiment conditions. Under this treatment, the weight of aboveground dry matter of maize was significantly (p<0.05) increased by 13.7%, 9.0% than that of CK at the booting, filling period, respectively, the yield was 18.23 t·hm^-2, and the economic income was 42 548 yuan·hm^-2, which was 4.9% higher than that of CK. Besides, the water use efficiency and partial factor productivity of fertilizers under W2F2 treatment were increased by 12.5% and 36.3%, respectively, as compared with the CK, and W2F2 treatment had no significant adverse effect on soil salt content. Compared with the CK, W2F2 treatment could save water and fertilizer usage by 24.7% and 25.0%, respectively. Specifically, the water-fertilizer coupling regime of W2F2 treatment was as follows: 8 times of irrigation during the whole growth period, irrigation quota of 2 880 m³·hm^-2, and input of N 157.5 kg·hm^-2, P₂O₅ 82.5 kg·hm^-2 and K₂O 82.5 kg·hm^-2 with a ratio of 20%, 30%, 30%, 20% at seedling, jointing, booting and filling period, respectively.

Key words: mulched drip irrigation, water-fertilizer coupling, maize, water use efficiency, partial factor productivity of fertilizer

CLC Number:

S275.6
S513

YAN Peizhong, CHEN Liang, ZHANG Shengyin, LIU Bin. Effects of water-fertilizer coupling regimes on maize yield and water and fertilizer use efficiency under mulched drip irrigation in Jingdian irrigation district of China[J]. Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis, 2025, 37(9): 1849-1859.

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处理 Treatment	经济产量 Economic yield/ (t·hm^-2)	水费投入 Water fee input/ (yuan·hm^-2)	肥料投入 Fertilizer input/ (yuan·hm^-2)	籽粒产值 Grain output value/ (yuan·hm^-2)	经济收益 Economic income/ (yuan·hm^-2)
W1F1	17.53 ab	1 277	2 190	43 825	40 358
W1F2	16.79 b	1 277	1 933	41 975	38 765
W1F3	16.21 b	1 277	1 675	40 525	37 573
W2F1	18.26 a	1 094	2 190	45 650	42 366
W2F2	18.23 a	1 094	1 933	45 575	42 548
W2F3	15.82 b	1 094	1 675	39 550	36 781
W3F1	15.94 b	889	2 190	39 850	36 771
W3F2	14.68 c	889	1 933	36 700	33 878
W3F3	13.31 d	889	1 675	33 275	30 711
CK	17.83 ab	1 454	2 577	44 575	40 544

处理 Treatment	经济产量 Economic yield/ (t·hm^-2)	水费投入 Water fee input/ (yuan·hm^-2)	肥料投入 Fertilizer input/ (yuan·hm^-2)	籽粒产值 Grain output value/ (yuan·hm^-2)	经济收益 Economic income/ (yuan·hm^-2)
W1F1	17.53 ab	1 277	2 190	43 825	40 358
W1F2	16.79 b	1 277	1 933	41 975	38 765
W1F3	16.21 b	1 277	1 675	40 525	37 573
W2F1	18.26 a	1 094	2 190	45 650	42 366
W2F2	18.23 a	1 094	1 933	45 575	42 548
W2F3	15.82 b	1 094	1 675	39 550	36 781
W3F1	15.94 b	889	2 190	39 850	36 771
W3F2	14.68 c	889	1 933	36 700	33 878
W3F3	13.31 d	889	1 675	33 275	30 711
CK	17.83 ab	1 454	2 577	44 575	40 544

处理 Treatment	播种前土壤含盐量 Soil salt content before sowing/(g·kg^-1)	收获后土壤含盐量 Soil salt content after harvest/(g·kg^-1)	土壤含盐量增长率 Increment of soil salt content/%
W1F1	15.1±1.2 a	21.8±0.9 c	44.37±4.33 d
W1F2	15.4±0.8 a	22.5±1.3 bc	46.10±3.58 cd
W1F3	14.9±1.3 a	22.1±1.6 bc	48.32±2.41 c
W2F1	15.6±0.6 a	22.8±1.8 bc	46.15±3.28 cd
W2F2	15.4±0.4 a	22.6±0.7 bc	46.75±2.54 cd
W2F3	15.5±0.7 a	23.1±1.3 b	49.03±3.26 c
W3F1	15.5±0.3 a	29.4±2.1 a	89.68±3.38 a
W3F2	15.7±1.1 a	28.7±2.4 a	82.80±2.32 b
W3F3	15.1±0.7 a	29.0±1.7 a	92.05±3.18 a
CK	14.8±0.6 a	21.6±1.4 c	45.95±4.46 cd

处理 Treatment	播种前土壤含盐量 Soil salt content before sowing/(g·kg^-1)	收获后土壤含盐量 Soil salt content after harvest/(g·kg^-1)	土壤含盐量增长率 Increment of soil salt content/%
W1F1	15.1±1.2 a	21.8±0.9 c	44.37±4.33 d
W1F2	15.4±0.8 a	22.5±1.3 bc	46.10±3.58 cd
W1F3	14.9±1.3 a	22.1±1.6 bc	48.32±2.41 c
W2F1	15.6±0.6 a	22.8±1.8 bc	46.15±3.28 cd
W2F2	15.4±0.4 a	22.6±0.7 bc	46.75±2.54 cd
W2F3	15.5±0.7 a	23.1±1.3 b	49.03±3.26 c
W3F1	15.5±0.3 a	29.4±2.1 a	89.68±3.38 a
W3F2	15.7±1.1 a	28.7±2.4 a	82.80±2.32 b
W3F3	15.1±0.7 a	29.0±1.7 a	92.05±3.18 a
CK	14.8±0.6 a	21.6±1.4 c	45.95±4.46 cd

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