Correlation of secondary salinization and soil conditioning in vegetable production under irrigation with saline water

Arzu Rivera-García; Géza Tuba; Györgyi Kovács; Lúcia Sinka; József Zsembeli

doi:10.18380/SZIE.COLUM.2022.9.2.35

Authors

Arzu Rivera-García Kálmán Kerpely Doctoral School, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Böszörményi út 138., Hungary; Research Institute of Karcag, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 5300 Karcag, Kisújszállási út 166. Hungary, e-mail: arzu89@agr.unideb.hu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3074-6132
Géza Tuba Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Research Institute of Karcag, e-mail: tuba.geza@uni-mate.hu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7356-4729
Györgyi Kovács Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Research Institute of Karcag, e-mail: kovacs.gyorgyi@uni-mate.hu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9792-440X
Lúcia Sinka Kálmán Kerpely Doctoral School, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Böszörményi út 138., Hungary; Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Research Institute of Karcag, e-mail: sinka.lucia@uni-mate.hu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3724-3861
József Zsembeli Kálmán Kerpely Doctoral School, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Böszörményi út 138., Hungary; Research Institute of Karcag, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 5300 Karcag, Kisújszállási út 166. Hungary, e-mail: zsembeli.jozsef@uni-mate.hu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1958-2584

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18380/SZIE.COLUM.2022.9.2.35

Keywords:

electric conductivity, soil moisture content, soil conditioners, salt tolerance, secondary salinization

Abstract

Secondary salinization is a main problem around the world due to climate change and intrusion of salts in the soil by improper irrigation. Our aim was to study the soil salinization process by simulating vegetable production under irrigation with saline water (total soluble salt content ⁓700 mg L^-1). We tested 6 different technologies of soil conditioner application and 3 vegetable crops with different sensitivity to salinity in a small plot experiment set up on a meadow chernozem soil. During the irrigation season in 2020, we regularly measured the electric conductivity (EC_a) and the soil moisture content (v/v%) in the topsoil (0.1 m) and analysed these parameters with Pearson’s bivariate correlation method. As our hypothesis, we expected that there is correlation (PCC) among EC_a, soil moisture content, soil conditioning, and providing the possibility to quantify the secondary salinization process. We found that all the 4 biosynthetic soil conditioners technologies minimized the harmful effect of saline irrigation. In the case of the not salt tolerant (NT) peas, the PCC correlation was higher to compost application and control expressing more intense salinization. NT beans showed a weaker correlation with lower PCCs, which must be due to its higher root activity leading to intensive leaching resulting in a lower degree of salinization. In the case of chilli with low salt tolerance (LT), micro dosing of soil conditioners was not effective in mitigating the harmful effect of secondary salinization, only full doses decreased the PCC. The salt tolerance of the investigated vegetable crops was also manifested in the yields. We found that PCC is a suitable statistical method to understand and quantify the process of secondary salinization.

Author Biography

Arzu Rivera-García, Kálmán Kerpely Doctoral School, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Böszörményi út 138., Hungary; Research Institute of Karcag, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 5300 Karcag, Kisújszállási út 166. Hungary, e-mail: arzu89@agr.unideb.hu

corresponding author

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