Abstract:
【Objective】 To study the effects of different irrigation methods on soil moisture content, yield, and quality and establish an irrigation system under the combination of flood irrigation and drip irrigation in Korla pear orchard by using the Korla Fragrant Pear Orchard at meadow soil in the northwest of Tarim Basin as the research object.
【Methods】 According to the physical properties of soil moisture in the study area, four drip irrigation methods were designed to investigate the soil water content by Diviner 2000 and compare the yield and quality.
【Results】 The soil water content under slow-full drip irrigation could reach 92% of the field capacity, fast-full drip irrigation significantly reduced the wetting effect. In the germination stage and young fruit stage, the soil water content accounted for 30%-55% of the field moisture capacity, and in the fruit expansion stage and ripening stage, the soil water content accounted for 65%-85% of the field moisture capacity. The soil water storage capacity during the budding stage was 80 mm, which was about half of that during the young fruit stage and one-third of that during the swelling and ripening stages. The water consumption during the budding and flowering stages was relatively small, both below 50 mm. The water consumption during the young fruit stage significantly increased, exceeding 150 mm, and the swelling stage reached its peak, exceeding 200 mm. The single fruit weight significantly increased under slow and full drip irrigation, resulting in a 34% increase in yield.
【Conclusion】 The suitable drip irrigation quota for the mixed drip mode is 50 m
3, with one flood irrigation and four drip irrigation, and when the irrigation quota is 5,250 m
3/hm
2, 42% water can be saved and yield arrive at 1,235 kg/667m
2. According to the changes in soil water storage and consumption, the optimized irrigation system consists of one flood irrigation and seven drip irrigation, with an irrigation quota of 7,500 m
3/hm
2, thus saving 17% water.