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Improving Water Use Efficiency Using Sensors and Communication System for Irrigation of Greenhouse Tomato in Tulkarm, Palestine

Kanan, Amer
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Allahham, Alaa
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Bouleau, Clemence  
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2022
Agricultural Research

In Palestine, water is one of the major challenges for farmers as water costs are prohibitive and the availability is limited. Innovative technologies and strategies are required improve crop yields, efficient irrigation to produce more nutritious food with less water. The objective of this study is to apply and test a new innovative approach in irrigation to improve water use efficiency by implementing a low-cost wireless communication system and sensors in Tomato plant drip irrigation in greenhouse. The system uses sensors in the soil measuring the soil matrix potential. When a set threshold is reached, the farmer gets an SMS that it is time to irrigate. Four irrigation treatments were applied, one is farmer custom-based irrigation (control), the other three are sensor-based irrigation depending on a preset threshold (-20 kPa, -40 kPa, and -60 kPa) in four different beds. Water consumption, plant growth parameters, and yield in each treatment were measured weekly. The amount of irrigation water applied according to farmer-based irrigation (custom irrigation) was 3.6 to 9.4 times the amount of water used in irrigation by using sensors and the communication system. Moreover, the yield and water use efficiency increased from about 146 kg/Bed and 13 kg/m(3) (custom irrigation), respectively, to 196 kg/Bed and 63 kg/m(3) and 250 kg/Bed and 167 kg/m(3), respectively (planned irrigation). It is recommended to further asses schedule irrigation frequency using low cost communication system that uses sensors sensitive to soil matrix potential to save water without compromising yield in water scarce regions.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s40003-021-00604-5
Web of Science ID

WOS:000693882100002

Author(s)
Kanan, Amer
Allahham, Alaa
Bouleau, Clemence  
Sayara, Tahseen
Qurie, Mohanad
Awad, Loay  
Date Issued

2022

Publisher

SPRINGER INDIA

Published in
Agricultural Research
Volume

11

Start page

728

End page

736

Subjects

Agronomy

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Agriculture

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irrigation management

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soil matrix potential

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water use efficiency

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sensors and communication system

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drip irrigation

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west-bank

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waste-water

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yield

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REVIEWED

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September 25, 2021
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