Alireza Nehbandani; Mojtaba Saadati; Mahdi Goodarzi; Afshin Soltani
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Food security reduction due to climate change is one of the most important challenges in the 21st century. This study was carried out to predict the potential yield and production of the country’s strategic crops examining various climate change scenarios. In this study, the potential yield & ...
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Food security reduction due to climate change is one of the most important challenges in the 21st century. This study was carried out to predict the potential yield and production of the country’s strategic crops examining various climate change scenarios. In this study, the potential yield & production of 17 crops (Wheat, barley, rice, common bean, rapeseed, chickpea, grain maize, cotton, lentil, potato, sesame, soybean, sugar beet, sugarcane, sunflower, alfalfa and Silage maize) were estimated under current conditions (period 2005-2014) & two climatic scenarios (optimistic:1.5 ° C increase in temperature with 14% increase in precipitation period 2005-2014; pessimistic: 1.5 ° C increase in temperature & 14% decrease in precipitation period 2005-2014) applying SSM-iCrop2 model. The results showed that the pessimistic scenario reduced the potential production of wheat & legumes (about 1%) & the optimistic scenario increased the potential production of these crops (4 & 2%, respectively). Both climate change scenarios reduced the potential production of rice, potato, oilseeds & sugar crops (4, 10, 5 & 7%, respectively). Furthermore, the potential production of Silage maize increased in both climate change scenarios (2% & 3%, respectively). The results showed that the major factors which alter crop yield could be the growing season duration, radiation use efficiency and transpiration efficiency. In general, wheat, barley, potato, and sugarcane were more affected by climate change than other crops.
Hamidreza Chaghazardi; Mohammad Reza Jahnsuz; Ali Ahmadi; Manouchehr Gorji
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In order to study of no-tillage, reduced tillage and conventional tillage systems on some soil physical properties, yield and some traits of wheat and chickpea, experiments were perfumed across two years in Sarpolezahab’s dryland region.Results of combined analysis of variance indicated that different ...
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In order to study of no-tillage, reduced tillage and conventional tillage systems on some soil physical properties, yield and some traits of wheat and chickpea, experiments were perfumed across two years in Sarpolezahab’s dryland region.Results of combined analysis of variance indicated that different tillage systems had significant effects (P≥0.01) on seed yield, volumetric soil moisture, bulk density, organic carbon, economic value and morphologic traits of wheat and chickpea. In the first year, seed yield of wheat in reduced tillage treatment was 8 percent higher than no-tillage treatment and 10 percent higher than conventional tillage treatment while in the second year seed yield of wheat in reduced tillage treatment was 2 percent higher than no-tillage treatment and 14 higher than conventional tillage treatment. Also, seed yield of chickpea in reduced tillage treatment was 8 and 56 percent higher than no-tillage and conventional treatments, respectively and in the second year was 51 and 20 percent higher than no-tillage and conventional treatments, respectively. In general, the results showed that the reduced tillage system was favourable and using of this system in replacement of conventional system could be advised to the farmers of dryland areas of Sarpolezahab region in Kermanshah province.