Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center, Khoramabad
2 Scientific Board, Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center, Khoramabad
Abstract
Water shortage is one of the major problems in most countries, especially countries with a growing population and Iran is one of these countries. Iran is located in a hot and dry weather and its annual rainfall is one-third of the world. Water shortage and recent droughts have reduced available water resources. Therefore, managing agricultural water consumption should be considered as one of the most important headlines of water resources management. In this study, irrigation efficiency was computed after measuring water consumption of three agricultural products of wheat, clever and alfalfa.. Results showed that the highest and the lowest of efficiency index of 1.85 and 1.43 belong to alfalfa and clever respectively andirrigation water consuming efficiency were 61.9, 76.01 and 150.1 for wheat, alfalfa and clever, respectively. Also, results demonstrated that efficiency-added product index for all three products of wheat, alfalfa and clever were 6112.7, 6505.2 and 4870.3 Rial/m3, respectively. Finally, according to the result, alfalfa has the highest productivity compared to other products.
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