Water and solar radiation productivity of double-crops in a humid temperate area

The intensification of agricultural systems including sequential double-crops provides a reliable platform to increase the water and solar radiation use in many humid temperate areas of South America, which are predominantly dominated by soybean as a sole crop. Our aim was to evaluate water and sola...

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Main Authors: Van Opstal, Natalia Veronica, Caviglia, Octavio, Melchiori, Ricardo Jose
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author Van Opstal, Natalia Veronica
Caviglia, Octavio
Melchiori, Ricardo Jose
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description The intensification of agricultural systems including sequential double-crops provides a reliable platform to increase the water and solar radiation use in many humid temperate areas of South America, which are predominantly dominated by soybean as a sole crop. Our aim was to evaluate water and solar radiation productivity, as a measure of the whole system efficiency, in sole-crops and double-crops in a humid temperate area of Argentina (31.5º S, 60.3º W, 110 m.a.s.l). An experiment including spring wheat, flax, rapeseed, peas and soybean as sole-crops and the sequential combination of winter crops with soybean as a second crop was carried out during the 2007/08 cropping season. We measured soil water content and solar radiation interception in order to estimate crop evapotranspiration and total intercepted solar radiation as a measure of the total captured resource by crops. Water and radiation use efficiencies were calculated as a ratio between grain yield and the captured resource. Water and solar radiation productivity were calculated as the product of the proportion of annual offer (rainfall or incident solar radiation) of the resources captured by crops, i.e. the capture efficiency and the resource use efficiency to produce grain yield. Capture efficiency was higher in double-crops than in sole-crops (average 0.99 vs. 0.51 for water and 0.41 vs. 0.18 for solar radiation). In contrast, the averages of resource use efficiency recorded were similar in sole- and double-crops (average 0.85 g m-2 mm-1 for water and 0.58 g MJ-1 for solar radiation). Therefore, water and radiation productivity were associated mainly with resource capture. The inclusion of double-crops led to a more efficient use of the annual offer of resources as reflected by the increased water and radiation productivity in double-crops as compared with sole-crops. Therefore, double cropping appears as a feasible option to increase the whole system efficiency and to improve the return of crop residues as compared with the simplified systems based on soybean of South America.
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spelling INTA70512020-04-07T13:14:48Z Water and solar radiation productivity of double-crops in a humid temperate area Van Opstal, Natalia Veronica Caviglia, Octavio Melchiori, Ricardo Jose Agua Radiación Solar Cultivos Temperatura Zona Húmeda Eficacia en el Uso del Agua Water Solar Radiation Crops Temperature Humid Zones Water Use Efficiency The intensification of agricultural systems including sequential double-crops provides a reliable platform to increase the water and solar radiation use in many humid temperate areas of South America, which are predominantly dominated by soybean as a sole crop. Our aim was to evaluate water and solar radiation productivity, as a measure of the whole system efficiency, in sole-crops and double-crops in a humid temperate area of Argentina (31.5º S, 60.3º W, 110 m.a.s.l). An experiment including spring wheat, flax, rapeseed, peas and soybean as sole-crops and the sequential combination of winter crops with soybean as a second crop was carried out during the 2007/08 cropping season. We measured soil water content and solar radiation interception in order to estimate crop evapotranspiration and total intercepted solar radiation as a measure of the total captured resource by crops. Water and radiation use efficiencies were calculated as a ratio between grain yield and the captured resource. Water and solar radiation productivity were calculated as the product of the proportion of annual offer (rainfall or incident solar radiation) of the resources captured by crops, i.e. the capture efficiency and the resource use efficiency to produce grain yield. Capture efficiency was higher in double-crops than in sole-crops (average 0.99 vs. 0.51 for water and 0.41 vs. 0.18 for solar radiation). In contrast, the averages of resource use efficiency recorded were similar in sole- and double-crops (average 0.85 g m-2 mm-1 for water and 0.58 g MJ-1 for solar radiation). Therefore, water and radiation productivity were associated mainly with resource capture. The inclusion of double-crops led to a more efficient use of the annual offer of resources as reflected by the increased water and radiation productivity in double-crops as compared with sole-crops. Therefore, double cropping appears as a feasible option to increase the whole system efficiency and to improve the return of crop residues as compared with the simplified systems based on soybean of South America. EEA Paraná Fil: Van Opstal, Natalia Veronica. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Paraná; Argentina Fil: Caviglia, Octavio. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Paraná; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos. Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Melchiori, Ricardo Jose. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Paraná; Argentina 2020-04-07T13:10:33Z 2020-04-07T13:10:33Z 2011-12 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7051 http://www.cropj.com/opstal_5_13_2011_1760_1766.pdf 1835-2693 1835-2707 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Southern Cross Publishing Australian Journal of Crop Science 5 (13) : 1760-1766 (2011)
spellingShingle Agua
Radiación Solar
Cultivos
Temperatura
Zona Húmeda
Eficacia en el Uso del Agua
Water
Solar Radiation
Crops
Temperature
Humid Zones
Water Use Efficiency
Van Opstal, Natalia Veronica
Caviglia, Octavio
Melchiori, Ricardo Jose
Water and solar radiation productivity of double-crops in a humid temperate area
title Water and solar radiation productivity of double-crops in a humid temperate area
title_full Water and solar radiation productivity of double-crops in a humid temperate area
title_fullStr Water and solar radiation productivity of double-crops in a humid temperate area
title_full_unstemmed Water and solar radiation productivity of double-crops in a humid temperate area
title_short Water and solar radiation productivity of double-crops in a humid temperate area
title_sort water and solar radiation productivity of double crops in a humid temperate area
topic Agua
Radiación Solar
Cultivos
Temperatura
Zona Húmeda
Eficacia en el Uso del Agua
Water
Solar Radiation
Crops
Temperature
Humid Zones
Water Use Efficiency
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7051
http://www.cropj.com/opstal_5_13_2011_1760_1766.pdf
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