Enhancement growth, water use efficiency and economic benefit for maize by drip irrigation in Northwest China

Abstract The application of drip irrigation has been paid more and more attention, but there was lack of systematic comparative analysis between drip irrigation and conventional border irrigation method for maize, currently. A 7-year field study from 2015 to 2021 evaluated the effects of drip irriga...

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Main Authors: Mengjie Liu, Fei Liang, Quansheng Li, Guodong Wang, Yuxin Tian, Hongtao Jia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35611-9