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Influences of Chinese Cabbage Growth and Soil Salinity to Alternative Irrigation Waters  

Shin, Joung-Du (National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Rural Development Administration)
Park, Sang-Won (National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Rural Development Administration)
Kim, Won-Il (National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Rural Development Administration)
Lee, Jong-Sik (National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Rural Development Administration)
Yun, Sun-Gang (National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Rural Development Administration)
Eom, Ki-Cheol (National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Rural Development Administration)
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Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer / v.40, no.1, 2007 , pp. 25-30 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objective of this experiment was to investigate the growth effects of Chinese cabbage and soil salinity to alternative irrigation waters for drought periods. The treatments were consisted of the discharge water from industrial wastewater treatment plant (DIWT), the discharge water from municipal wastewater treatment plant (DMWT) and ground water as the control. For the chemical compositions of alternative water, it appeared that concentrations of the $Ni^+$ and SAR values in DIWT were over the reuse criteria of other countries for irrigation, but CODcr concentration in DMWT was higher than the reuse criteria for agricultural irrigation. According to classification of water by $EC_i$ value, DIWT and DMWT are ranged from 0.7 to $2.0dS\;m^{-1}$, slight salinity. Average harvest indexes were 0.64 for DIWT and 0.63 for DMWT as compared to 0.61 of the control regardless of irrigation periods. SAR value in soil was increased with prolonging the irrigation periods at head forming stage, but not much difference except for 30 days of irrigation period at harvesting time for DIWT. However, it was not much difference along with irrigation periods through the growth stages for DMWT as compared with the groundwater. At harvesting time, average $EC_e$ for the soil irrigated with alternative agricultural waters was $0.017dS\;m^{-1}$ for its DIMT and $0.036dS\;m^{-1}$ for its DMWT as compared to $0.013dS\;m^{-1}$ of its groundwater as the control. For $NH_4-N$ concentrations, it observed that there were no differences among the treatments with different irrigation periods at head forming stage in soil after irrigation. Also, $NO_3-N$ concentration in soil was increased up to 20 days after irrigation, and then decreased at 30 days after irrigation with DMWT at head forming stage. The $Ni^+$ concentration in upper layer soil (0-15 cm) irrigated with DIWT was increased with prolonging the irrigation period at head forming stage, but it was dramatically decreased and almost constant in all the treatments at harvesting time. Therefore, it might be concluded that there was potentially safe to irrigate the discharge water from municipal wastewater treatment plant for 20 days after transplanting to drought periods with cultivating the Chinese cabbage.
Keywords
Alternative irrigation waters; Drought periods; and Soil salinity;
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