Abstract
Water scarcity and changing rainfall distribution have caused uncertainties in relation to agricultural production in semiarid areas. In this context, water reuse for irrigation is a promising alternative, although requiring irrigation and agricultural management. Production of forage plants is strategic for semiarid areas due to their high tolerance to stresses and use as animal fodder. The objective of this work was to evaluate the combined performance of treated wastewater irrigation and mulching on forage sorghum and on soil attributes in Northeast Brazil. Sorghum was cropped in November 2018, three months before the beginning of the hydrologic year, and cultivated over three cycles until April 2019. The experiment was designed with five irrigation depths (60%, 80%, 100%, 120%, and 140% of crop evapotranspiration), and with four soil cover conditions (0% (witness), soil covered with native vegetation, with coconut coir, and with macerated moringa seeds), adopting four replications. Irrigation with treated wastewater promoted linear increases in forage sorghum yield at irrigation depths of up to 140% of crop evapotranspiration. Mulch promoted a 24% increase in productivity in relation to the area where conservation was not practiced, being able to control salinity while also contributing to the higher incorporation of organic matter. Irrigation with treated wastewater had no negative agronomic impacts on soil, once natural rainfall events typical of the Brazilian semiarid region allowed effective salt leaching from shallow sandy soils.
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Claim · model-written summary
Treated wastewater irrigation gave linear increases in forage sorghum yield up to 140% of crop evapotranspiration.
- Taxon
- forage sorghume1
- Treatment
- Irrigation with treated wastewatere1
- Outcome
- forage sorghum yielde1
- Direction
- linear increasese1
- Qualifier
- at irrigation depths of up to 140% of crop evapotranspiratione1
- Setting
- Northeast Brazile0
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e1“Irrigation with treated wastewater promoted linear increases in forage sorghum yield at irrigation depths of up to 140% of crop evapotranspiration”
e0“The objective of this work was to evaluate the combined performance of treated wastewater irrigation and mulching on forage sorghum and on soil attributes in Northeast Brazil”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulch raised sorghum productivity by 24% relative to the area where conservation was not practiced.
Verbatim
e2“Mulch promoted a 24% increase in productivity in relation to the area where conservation was not practiced”
e0“The objective of this work was to evaluate the combined performance of treated wastewater irrigation and mulching on forage sorghum and on soil attributes in Northeast Brazil”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulch was able to control soil salinity under sorghum cultivation.
- Taxon
- forage sorghume0
- Treatment
- Mulche3
- Outcome
- salinitye3
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede3
- Setting
- Northeast Brazile0
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Verbatim
e3“Mulch promoted a 24% increase in productivity in relation to the area where conservation was not practiced, being able to control salinity while also contributing to the higher incorporation of organic matter”
e0“The objective of this work was to evaluate the combined performance of treated wastewater irrigation and mulching on forage sorghum and on soil attributes in Northeast Brazil”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulch contributed to a higher incorporation of organic matter into the soil under sorghum.
- Taxon
- forage sorghume0
- Treatment
- Mulche3
- Outcome
- incorporation of organic mattere3
- Direction
- highere3
- Setting
- Northeast Brazile0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e3“Mulch promoted a 24% increase in productivity in relation to the area where conservation was not practiced, being able to control salinity while also contributing to the higher incorporation of organic matter”
e0“The objective of this work was to evaluate the combined performance of treated wastewater irrigation and mulching on forage sorghum and on soil attributes in Northeast Brazil”
Claim · model-written summary
Treated wastewater irrigation had no negative agronomic impacts on soil.
- Taxon
- forage sorghume0
- Treatment
- Irrigation with treated wastewatere4
- Outcome
- negative agronomic impacts on soile4
- Setting
- Northeast Brazile0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Verbatim
e4“Irrigation with treated wastewater had no negative agronomic impacts on soil, once natural rainfall events typical of the Brazilian semiarid region allowed effective salt leaching from shallow sandy soils”
e0“The objective of this work was to evaluate the combined performance of treated wastewater irrigation and mulching on forage sorghum and on soil attributes in Northeast Brazil”
Claim · model-written summary
Natural rainfall allowed effective salt leaching from shallow sandy soils after treated wastewater irrigation.
Verbatim
e4“Irrigation with treated wastewater had no negative agronomic impacts on soil, once natural rainfall events typical of the Brazilian semiarid region allowed effective salt leaching from shallow sandy soils”
e0“The objective of this work was to evaluate the combined performance of treated wastewater irrigation and mulching on forage sorghum and on soil attributes in Northeast Brazil”
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