Improving bio-physical and economic water productivity of menthol mint (Mentha arvensis L.) through drip fertigation

Brar, A. S.; Buttar, G. S.; Singh, Mandeep; Singh, Sikander; Vashist, Krishan Kumar

doi:10.1007/s00271-021-00722-6

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“…Nevertheless, both SSDF levels of 75% RDN and 100% RDN revealed better plant height and biomass accumulation over the SF method (2,138 g m -2 ), which could be attributed to the optimum availability of water and nitrogen to plants under SSDF, in agreement with Ayyadurai and Manickasundaram (2014) who recorded 36% higher biomass under DF of 100% RDN over soil application under SF. These findings established water and nitrogen to be among the essential growth factors as evident from better height and biomass accumulation under their increased supply ( Brar et al., 2021 ). Higher biomass accumulation under SSDI over SF method is also supported by Sampthkumar et al.…”

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“…Among the studied irrigation regimes, improved BWP values ( Table 8 ) were recorded under SSDI levels of 100% ETc (0.627 kg m -3 ), 80% ETc (0.620 kg m -3 ), and SDI (0.637 kg m -3 ), while it was significantly reduced under 60% ETc (0.551 kg m -3 ) and SF (0.601 kg m -3 ). The reduced BWP by 12.5% under SSDI at 60% ETc compared with 80% ETc was clearly indicative of its poor efficiency ( Brar et al., 2021 ). The SF method revealed least WUE (57%), while values were considerably improved under a SSDI level of 0.8 ETc (80.3%), closely followed by SDI (80.9%), SSDI level of 60% ETc (76.5%), and 100% ETc (78.8%).…”

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“…However, both SSDF levels of 75% and 100% RDN exhibited increased NUE by 31.6% and 10.4%, respectively, over SF (25.9 kg SCY kg -1 N). The higher NUE under SSDF has been primarily due to the application of nitrogen directly to the root zone, which, in turn, minimized volatilization and leaching losses and consequently improved the yield ( Brar et al., 2022 ). Moreover, the application of N in 10 equal splits under SSDF might have checked the N losses in the soil compared with only two splits under the broadcasting method, which further helped to enhance NUE, in agreement with Bharathraj et al.…”

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Sub-surface drip fertigation improves seed cotton yield and monetary returns

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Surface flood (SF) method is used to irrigate cotton in India, which results in huge wastage of water besides leaching of nutrients. This necessitates the adoption of efficient management strategies to save scarce water without compromising the yield. Therefore, a 2-year field investigation was conducted under two climatic regimes (Faridkot and Abohar) to study the effect of sub-surface drip fertigation (SSDF) on seed cotton yield (SCY), water productivity, nitrogen use efficiency (NUE), and economic parameters in comparison with SF and surface drip fertigation (SDF). The field experiment had a total of eight treatments arranged in a randomized complete block design. Three levels of sub-surface drip irrigation [(SSDI); i.e., 60%, 80%, and 100% of crop evapotranspiration (ETc)] and two N fertigation levels [100% recommended dose of nitrogen (RDN; i.e., 112.5 kg N ha-1) and 75% RDN] made up six treatments, while SF (Control 1) and SDF at 80% ETc (Control 2), both with 100% of RDN, served as the controls. Among irrigation regimes, the SSDI levels of 80% ETc and 100% ETc recorded 18.7% (3,240 kg ha-1) and 21.1% (3,305 kg ha-1) higher SCY compared with SF (2,728 kg ha-1). Water use efficiency under SF (57.0%) was reduced by 34.2%, 40.8%, and 38.2% compared with SSDI’s 60 (76.5%), 80 (80.3%), and 100% ETc (78.8%), respectively. Among fertigation levels, NUE was higher by 19.2% under 75% (34.1 kg SCY kg-1 N) over 100% RDN (28.6 kg SCY kg-1 N), but later it also registered 11.9% higher SCY, indicating such to be optimum for better productivity. SSDF at 80% ETc along with 112.5 kg N ha-1 recorded 26.6% better SCY (3455 kg ha-1) and 18.5% higher NUE (30.7 kg SCY kg-1 N) over SF. These findings demonstrate that the application of SSDF could save irrigation water, enhance SCY, and improve the farmers’ returns compared with SF. Therefore, in northwestern India, SSDF at 80% ETc along with 112.5 kg N ha-1 could be a novel water-savvy concept which would be immensely helpful in enhancing cotton productivity.

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Sub-surface drip fertigation improves seed cotton yield and monetary returns

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“…The growth factors of edible mint are illuminance, photometric exposure, moisture content, and temperature [5,18]. The selected plant is the Mentha spicata, a kind of edible mint.…”

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Design of an Artificial Intelligence of Things Based Indoor Planting Model for Mentha Spicata

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2022

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In recent years, many large-scale plantings have become refined small-scale or home plantings. The rapid progress of agriculture technologies and information techniques enables people to control the growth of agricultural products well. Hence, this study proposes an Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) based Plant Pot Design for planting edible mint in an office setting, which is called APPD. APPD is composed of intelligent gardens and a cloud-based service platform. An intelligent garden is deployed an Arduino with multiple sensors to monitor and control plant pots of the edible mint, Mentha spicata. The cloud-based service platform provides a Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) inference engine with a database for adjustment influence factors. This study discusses eight growing statuses of Mentha spicata with different illumination, photometric exposure, and moisture content, designed for an office environment. Evaluation results indicate that Mentha spicata with 16 h red–blue lighting and 50% moisture content makes a maximum 5% mint extract of the total weight of the mint leaves. Finally, APPD can be a reference model for researchers and engineers.

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“…In surface irrigation (SI), the most common irrigation system, about 71% of water and significant amount of applied nutrients are lost and water use efficiency (WUE) never exceeds 45%. This emphasises on adopting modern irrigation and nutrient application methods like drip fertigation which has WUE of 90%, and N, P and K use efficiency of 90, 45 and 80%, respectively in comparison to 30-50, 20 and 50% in soil application (Chen et al 2015, Brar et al 2019.…”

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Productivity and profitability of drip fertigated wheat (Triticum aestivum) – mungbean (Vigna radiata) – maize (Zea mays) cropping system

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An experiment was conducted at the research farm of ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhiduring 2019–20 and 2020–21 to study the productivity and economic viability of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)–mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek)–maize (Zea mays L.) fertigated with 0, 60, 80, 100% recommended dosesof NPK and irrigated at 0.6 and 0.8 crop evapotranspiration (ETc) through subsurface (SSDI) and surface drip irrigation (SDI). The results were compared with the conventional practice of surface irrigation and soil application of 100% recommended doses of NPK. Grain yields of wheat, mungbean, maize and system wheat equivalent yield (SWEY) improved by 22.9, 7.2, 21.9 and 19.4%, respectively with increase in NPK fertigation doses from 60 to 100% and by 15.6, 9.2, 4.9 and 9.7% with the increase in irrigation frequency from 0.6 to 0.8 ETc. However, SDI and SSDI had equal system productivity (12.48 and 12.85 Mg/ha). The SWEY at 0.8ETc fertigated either with NPK80 or NPK100was statistically at par (14.2–15.9 Mg/ha) with the conventional practice (14.3–15.2 Mg/ha). The cash inflow, netincome and benefit cost ratio (BCR) of the cropping system also increased successively with increase in fertigationdoses and irrigation frequency. The net income and BCR followed the order maize>wheat>mungbean. The net income under SSDI at 0.8 ETc with NPK80 or NPK100 in wheat, mungbean, maize and system was 11–13, 88–105, 1-9 and 8–14% higher than the conventional practice. At 0.8 ETc and NPK100, BCR in SSDI (1.86) was higher than in SDI(1.71) and conventional system (1.67).

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Improving bio-physical and economic water productivity of menthol mint (Mentha arvensis L.) through drip fertigation

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Sub-surface drip fertigation improves seed cotton yield and monetary returns

Sub-surface drip fertigation improves seed cotton yield and monetary returns

Design of an Artificial Intelligence of Things Based Indoor Planting Model for Mentha Spicata

Productivity and profitability of drip fertigated wheat (Triticum aestivum) – mungbean (Vigna radiata) – maize (Zea mays) cropping system

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