Irrigation & Drainage Systems Engineering

Wondo Genet Agricultural Research Center, P. O. Box 198, Shashemene, Ethiopia

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  Determination of Optimal Soil Moisture Depletion Level for Stevia (Stevia Rebaudiana Bertoni) at Wondo Genet, South Ethiopia
  Author(s): Elias Meskelu*, Henok Tesfaye, Ayele Debebe, Mulugeta Mohammed and Seble Bekele
  
  The study was conducted based on the objective to evaluate the optimal soil moisture depletion level of stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni). Six levels of soil moisture depletion (20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 100%) with four replications were used in a randomized complete block design. Different levels of total available water depletion significantly (p<0.05) affected all recorded yield and yield components. Significantly highest plant height, fresh and dry leaf weight, fresh and dry stem weight, aboveground fresh and dry biomass, and water productivity were obtained as stevia was irrigated below 40% TAW depletion level. However, water productivity was decreased both at higher and lower depletion levels and higher was at 30 and 40% depletion levels. The pooled mean revealed that irrigating stevia under different soil moisture depletion levels had a significant (p<0.05) effect on fresh.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2168-9768.2021.10.285

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