IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/agiwat/v182y2017icp87-93.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Effect of drip fertigation and polythene mulching on growth and productivity of coconut (Cocos nucifera L.), water, nutrient use efficiency and economic benefits

Author

Listed:
  • M., Jayakumar
  • S., Janapriya
  • U., Surendran

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of drip irrigation, fertigation and polythene mulching on coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) var. VHC 3. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with seven treatments and three replications. The treatments comprised of 100% (T1), 80% (T2) and 60% (T3) recommended dose of fertilizer with 100μm thickness polythene mulch and 100% (T4), 80% (T5) and 60% (T6) recommended dose of fertilizer without polythene mulch. The control was with conventional method of irrigation (basin irrigation) without mulch (T7). The recorded data on the growth and yield of coconut revealed that the plant height, canopy development and other plant growth parameters were higher in the treatment with 100% recommended dose of fertilizer (0.50:0.32:1.20kg of NPK tree−1) with 100μm thickness polythene mulch (T1) when compared to other treatments. The maximum yield attributes viz., spathe length, number of inflorescence, number of bunches/palm/year and number of nuts/bunch of 127.76cm, 13, 13 and 31, respectively were recorded in 100% of recommended dose of drip fertigation with 100μm polythene mulching. The lowest spathe length, number of inflorescence, number of bunches/palm/year and number of nuts/bunch of 92.16cm, 8, 8 and 12, respectively were recorded in control treatment without mulch. The number of nuts per palm, an important yield contributing trait was promising with 292 nuts/palm/year in 100% of recommended dose of drip fertigation with 100μm polythene mulching (T1) treatment. Likewise gradual reductions in weed population, superior water use efficiency, nutrient use efficiency and high profitability were observed in all the polythene mulch combination treatments when compared with other treatments without mulch. The study emphasised that adoption of drip fertigation with polythene mulching increases the productivity in coconut, besides ensuring the higher efficiency of water, nutrients and profitability in coconut.

Suggested Citation

  • M., Jayakumar & S., Janapriya & U., Surendran, 2017. "Effect of drip fertigation and polythene mulching on growth and productivity of coconut (Cocos nucifera L.), water, nutrient use efficiency and economic benefits," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 182(C), pages 87-93.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:agiwat:v:182:y:2017:i:c:p:87-93
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2016.12.012
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377416305017
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.agwat.2016.12.012?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. de Azevedo, Pedro Vieira & de Sousa, Inaja Francisco & da Silva, Bernardo Barbosa & da Silva, Vicente de Paulo Rodrigues, 2006. "Water-use efficiency of dwarf-green coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) orchards in northeast Brazil," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 84(3), pages 259-264, August.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Wu, You & Si, Wei & Yan, Shicheng & Wu, Lifeng & Zhao, Wenju & Zhang, Jiale & Zhang, Fucang & Fan, Junliang, 2023. "Water consumption, soil nitrate-nitrogen residue and fruit yield of drip-irrigated greenhouse tomato under various irrigation levels and fertilization practices," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 277(C).
    2. Surendran, U. & Madhava Chandran, K., 2022. "Development and evaluation of drip irrigation and fertigation scheduling to improve water productivity and sustainable crop production using HYDRUS," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 269(C).
    3. Sun, Guangzhao & Hu, Tiantian & Liu, Xiaogang & Peng, Youliang & Leng, Xianxian & Li, Yilin & Yang, Qiliang, 2022. "Optimizing irrigation and fertilization at various growth stages to improve mango yield, fruit quality and water-fertilizer use efficiency in xerothermic regions," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 260(C).
    4. Kaili Shi & Lili Zhangzhong & Furong Han & Shirui Zhang & Rui Guo & Xueying Yao, 2023. "Reducing Emitter Clogging in Drip Fertigation Systems by Magnetization Technology," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(4), pages 1-11, February.
    5. Dan Wang & Guangyong Li & Yan Mo & Mingkun Cai & Xinyang Bian, 2017. "Effect of Planting Date on Accumulated Temperature and Maize Growth under Mulched Drip Irrigation in a Middle-Latitude Area with Frequent Chilling Injury," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(9), pages 1-16, August.
    6. Wang, Chao & Wu, Shuxia & Tankari, Moussa & Zhang, Ximei & Li, Li & Gong, Daozhi & Hao, Weiping & Zhang, Yanqing & Mei, Xurong & Wang, Yufei & Liu, Fulai & Wang, Yaosheng, 2018. "Stomatal aperture rather than nitrogen nutrition determined water use efficiency of tomato plants under nitrogen fertigation," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 209(C), pages 94-101.
    7. Liu, Chunye & Wang, Rui & Wang, Wene & Hu, Xiaotao & Cheng, Yong & Liu, Fulai, 2021. "Effect of fertilizer solution concentrations on filter clogging in drip fertigation systems," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 250(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Sousa Santos, Maria Mayara & Lacerda, Claudivan Feitosa & Rocha Neves, Antonia Leila & de Sousa, Carlos Henrique Carvalho & de Albuquerque Ribeiro, Aureliano & Alves Bezerra, Marlos & da Silva Araújo,, 2020. "Ecophysiology of the tall coconut growing under different coastal areas of northeastern Brazil," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 232(C).
    2. Ouyang, Z.-P. & Mei, X.-R. & Li, Y.-Z. & Guo, J.-X., 2013. "Measurements of water dissipation and water use efficiency at the canopy level in a peach orchard," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 80-86.
    3. U. Surendran & C. M. Sushanth & E. J. Joseph & Nadhir Al-Ansari & Zaher Mundher Yaseen, 2019. "FAO CROPWAT Model-Based Irrigation Requirements for Coconut to Improve Crop and Water Productivity in Kerala, India," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-15, September.
    4. Mohan, Midhun & Mendonça, Bruno Araujo Furtado de & Silva, Carlos Alberto & Klauberg, Carine & de Saboya Ribeiro, Acauã Santos & Araújo, Emanuel José Gomes de & Monte, Marco Antonio & Cardil, Adrián, 2019. "Optimizing individual tree detection accuracy and measuring forest uniformity in coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) plantations using airborne laser scanning," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 409(C), pages 1-1.
    5. Azevedo, Pedro Vieira de & Soares, Jose Monteiro & Silva, Vicente de Paulo Rodrigues da & Silva, Bernardo Barbosa da & Nascimento, Tarcizio, 2008. "Evapotranspiration of "Superior" grapevines under intermittent irrigation," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 95(3), pages 301-308, March.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:agiwat:v:182:y:2017:i:c:p:87-93. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/agwat .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.