Wheat crop productivity requirements using modern irrigation technology

Abstract

The development and modernization of the agricultural sector has become a great importance matter and inevitability that requires putting the scientific progress results using advanced scientific and technological foundations into practical application and making efforts to expand the scope of its dissemination and adopting new agricultural innovations and techniques and understanding the farmers by applying them in order to reach the optimal use of their resources and raise production rates to the maximum possible extent, the main goal was to use a modern irrigation technology that meets the crop's needs throughout the growth period with the highest productivity. The presented research transpired in 2023 in the Al-Shomali  area, Babil City, Iraq,  smart irrigation use for the subsurface drip irrigation system(SDIS ), with two dripper drainage of 6 and 8L.hr^-1and two drip irrigation distances of 20,  and 25 cm on two wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) varieties, i.e., Tamoz-2 (T-2), and Bhooth -22 (B-22), The T-2 variety was significantly better than B-22 variety in all studied parameters. For T-2 variety, the plant height (Ph), spike length(SL), spikes number(SN), chlorophyll percentage(CP), grains number(GNS), 1000 grains weight (1000GW), and grain yield (GY), were 90.57cm, 15.85cm, 324.88 spike.m2, 67.36 %, 81.67grain.spike^-1, 49.31 g and 6.24t.ha^-1 respectively, The dripper distance 25 cm was significantly superior to the other level of 20 cm in all studied parameters, while the dripper drainage at range of 8 L.hr^-1 was significantly superior to the other range of 6L.hr^-1 in all parameters.