Influence of Agri-Aquaculture and Seed Treatment Techniques on Sugar Beet Crop

Abstract

The current study aimed to investigate the influence of using different sources of irrigation (well "ground water" and agriaquaculture) with some seed treatments techniques on amount of water applied, water use efficiency, yield and economic analysis of sugar beet crop. An experimental was design on split plot with 6 treatments and three replicates, where three seed treatments techniques i.e. control, soaking (24 h) and soaking (72 h). Drip irrigation was used and crops were planted in rows. Data indicated that the amounts of water applied were 2653, 2565 and 2489 m 3 /fed. under control (C), soaking 24 h (S 1) and soaking 72 h (S 2). and amounts of water saving under different seed treatments (S 1 , and S 2) compared with control treatment (C) were 88 and 264 m 3 /fed., respectively. These results demonstrated that values of both root and sugar water use efficiencies were 7.54 and 1.29 kg/m 3 under well (W) treatment, while were 8.24 and 1.44 kg/m 3 under agri-aquaculture (A) treatment. The highest value of germination ratio was 94.06% under S 2 treatment, while the lowest value was 93.86% under C treatment. The maximum root yield among seed treatment techniques was recorded with S 2 treatment (20.18 ton/fed) followed significantly by soaking seeds 24 h (19.19 ton/fed) and followed by control treatment (19.76 ton/fed). The highest net return and the maximum value of water productivity were 8427 LE/fed and 3.53 LE/m 3 with used agri-aquaculture and soaking seed 72h, while the lowest value was 6144 LE/fed. and 2.32 LE/m 3 with well water and without treated seed.

The Influence of Gibberellic Acid and Different Irrigation Resources on Morphological, Quality and Yield Parameters of some Sweet Sorghum Varieties in New Reclaimed Area

“…When irrigation sweet sorghum with fish farm waste water, stalk length exceeds by (109.05 and 109.67 cm), as well as stalk diameter exceeds by (0.91 and 1.32 cm) compared with well ground water during the 1 st and 2 nd seasons, respectively. Moursy (2018) indicated that the morphological measurements were highly enhanced by using agri-aquaculture (fish farm waste water) than ground water resource.…”