RT - Journal Article T1 - Drip and Furrow Irrigation Systems Management in Soybean under Water Stress JF - JSTNAR YR - 2012 JO - JSTNAR VO - 16 IS - 61 UR - http://jstnar.iut.ac.ir/article-1-2432-en.html SP - 97 EP - 108 K1 - Soybean K1 - Furrow irrigation K1 - Drip irrigation K1 - Water dificite K1 - Water use efficiency. AB - Modification of irrigation scheduling and management improvement of irrigation systems are two essential factors that have significant impact on agricultural water use efficiency. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of tape drip irrigation (T) and furrow irrigation systems (S) under different irrigation regimes on yield and yield components of soybean in growing season of 2006-2007 at Gorgan Agricultural Research Station in north part of Iran. The experiment was laid out in a split plot design in a randomized complete form where each treatment was replicated three times. The main plots were irrigation systems of tape and furrow, and three irrigation regimes 100 (I100) , 75 (I75) and 50 (I50) percent of total irrigation requirement were chosen as secondary plots. Results showed that thousandgrain weight (gr) and plant height (cm) in furrow irrigation were significantly more than the tape drip irrigation method. Also significant differences between different irrigation regimes in terms of plant height, node numbers and yield were observed. So, I100 and I50 had highest and lowest values, respectively. In terms of irrigation system, 63 percent of water consumption was reduced in tape drip irrigation method. Also, the results indicated that higher and lower water use efficiencies were obtained from tape drip irrigation method with I50 treatment (1.09 kg m-3) and furrow irrigation with I100 treatment (0.50 kg m3), respectively. LA eng UL http://jstnar.iut.ac.ir/article-1-2432-en.html M3 ER -