Optimizing fertilization under ridge-furrow rainfall harvesting system to improve foxtail millet yield and water use in a semiarid region, China

Zhang, Xudong; Kamran, Muhammad; Li, Fangjian; Xue, Xuanke; Jia, Zhikuan; Han, Qingfang

doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2019.105852

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“…The fertiliser application is crucial to protect global food and enhance the yield of cereals [15]. However, excess fertilisers will make toxic and negative impacts to crop quality and yield [7,43]. Besides, fertilisers are very expensive and fertiliser waste will reduce producer incomes.…”

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A big data smart agricultural system: recommending optimum fertilisers for crops

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Duong

Nguyen

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Int. j. inf. tecnol.

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Nutrients are important to promote plant growth and nutrient deficiency is the primary factor limiting crop production. However, excess fertilisers can also have a negative impact on crop quality and yield, cause an increase in pollution and decrease producer profit. Hence, determining the suitable quantities of fertiliser for every crop is very useful. Currently, the agricultural systems with internet of things make very large data volumes. Exploiting agricultural Big Data will help to extract valuable information. However, designing and implementing a large scale agricultural data warehouse are very challenging. The data warehouse is a key module to build a smart crop system to make proficient agronomy recommendations. In our paper, an electronic agricultural record (EAR) is proposed to integrate many separate datasets into a unified dataset. Then, to store and manage the agricultural Big Data, we built an agricultural data warehouse based on Hive and Elasticsearch. Finally, we applied some statistical methods based on our data warehouse to extract fertiliser information such as a case study. These statistical methods propose the recommended quantities of fertiliser components across a wide range of environmental and crop management conditions, such as nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) for the top ten most popular crops in EU.

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A big data smart agricultural system: recommending optimum fertilisers for crops

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“…As an innovative water–saving technology, the ridge–furrow with plastic film mulching on the ridge (RP) has the advantages of building ridges along the farmland contours to reduce soil and water loss from heavy rains, penetrating collected light-rain water into deep soil and preserving soil moisture in decreasing unproductive evaporation, and thus prolongs the period of soil water availability to plants 16 . Several field studies also have identified that the RP could increase the water use efficiency and crop yields in dry semi–humid areas 17 , 18 . It is noteworthy that RP could increase the indirect GHG emissions because of plastic film production, marketing and use in the field, meanwhile, cause farmland environment pollution 19 , 20 .…”

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“…Additionally, this issue is becoming increasingly severe with the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization 24 . Although the RP has been recommended in dry semi-humid areas, it was mainly performed in the mono–cropped production of wheat 25 , maize 16 , 26 , and foxtail millet 18 . It is unknown that whether RP is suitable for the intensive winter wheat-summer maize system with high energy use efficiency and economic benefits to promote the sustained agricultural production in this region.…”

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Energy budget and carbon footprint in a wheat and maize system under ridge furrow strategy in dry semi humid areas

2021

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The well-irrigated planting strategy (WI) consumes a large amount of energy and exacerbates greenhouse gas emissions, endangering the sustainable agricultural production. This 2-year work aims to estimate the economic benefit, energy budget and carbon footprint of a wheat–maize double cropping system under conventional rain-fed flat planting (irrigation once a year, control), ridge–furrows with plastic film mulching on the ridge (irrigation once a year, RP), and the WI in dry semi-humid areas of China. Significantly higher wheat and maize yields and net returns were achieved under RP than those under the control, while a visible reduction was found for wheat yields when compared with the WI. The ratio of benefit: cost under RP was also higher by 10.5% than that under the control in the first rotation cycle, but did not differ with those under WI. The net energy output and carbon output followed the same trends with net returns, but the RP had the largest energy use efficiency, energy productivity carbon efficiency and carbon sustainability among treatments. Therefore, the RP was an effective substitution for well–irrigated planting strategy for achieving sustained agricultural development in dry semi-humid areas.

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“…As an innovative water-saving technology, the ridge-furrow with plastic film mulching on the ridge (RP) has the advantages of building ridges along the farmland contours to reduce soil and water loss from heavy rains, penetrating collected light-rain water into deep soil and preserving soil moisture in decreasing unproductive evaporation, and thus prolongs the periods of soil water availability to plants 16 . Several field studies also have identified that the RP could increase the water use efficiency and crop yields in dry semi-humid areas 17,18 . However, whether the RP can increase energy consumption, GHG emissions, and economic benefits of production in semi-humid areas remains unknown.…”

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“…Additionally, this issue is becoming increasingly severe with the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization 22 . Although the RP has been recommended in dry semihumid areas, it was mainly performed in the mono-cropped production of wheat 23 , maize 16,24 , and foxtail millet 18 . whether is suitable or not, and how is the energy use efficiency and economic benefits in the intensive winter wheat-summer maize system as to the sustained agricultural production in this region?…”

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Energy Budget and Carbon Footprint in Ridge–Furrow With Plastic Film Mulch Strategy Under a Wheat–Maize System in Dry Semi–Humid Areas

2021

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The well–irrigated planting strategy (WI) consumes a large amount of energy and exacerbates greenhouse gas emissions, endangering the sustainable agricultural production. This work aims to estimate the economic benefit, energy budget and carbon footprint of a wheat–maize double cropping system under conventional rain–fed flat planting (control), ridge–furrows with plastic film mulching on the ridge (RP), and the WI in dry semi-humid areas of China. Significantly higher wheat and maize grain yields and net returns were achieved under RP than those under the control, while a visible reduction was only found for wheat grain yields when compared with the WI. The ratio of benefit: cost under RP was also higher by 10.5% than that under the control in the first rotation cycle, but did not differ with those under WI. The net energy output and carbon output followed the same trends with net returns, but the RP had the largest energy use efficiency, energy productivity carbon efficiency and carbon sustainability among treatments. Therefore, the ridge-furrow planting with plastic film mulch over the ridge was an effective substitution for well–irrigated planting strategy for achieving sustained agricultural development in dry semi-humid areas.

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Optimizing fertilization under ridge-furrow rainfall harvesting system to improve foxtail millet yield and water use in a semiarid region, China

Cited by 23 publications

References 27 publications

A big data smart agricultural system: recommending optimum fertilisers for crops

A big data smart agricultural system: recommending optimum fertilisers for crops

Energy budget and carbon footprint in a wheat and maize system under ridge furrow strategy in dry semi humid areas

Energy Budget and Carbon Footprint in Ridge–Furrow With Plastic Film Mulch Strategy Under a Wheat–Maize System in Dry Semi–Humid Areas

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