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<p>Nowadays, the development of irrigation is increasingly recognized as a necessary factor in agriculture, primarily because of global warming. Depending on the field conditions, the most commonly used method is sprinkler irrigation. The spray uniformity of sprinklers installed on the field irrigation equipment can be characterized by the Christiansen-uniformity coefficient (CUc%) and the distribution uniformity coefficient (DU%). Our investigations were carried out on the lateral moving irrigation equipment of University of Debrecen, Institutes for Agricultural Research and Educational Farm and Nyírbátor’s company in Hungary in 2019. Variable rate irrigation (VRI) is used in Nyírbátor. In contrast, the VRI has given positive results, making an irrigation equipment with the VRI a safer and more uniform method than a conventional linear irrigation equipment.</p>
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Nowadays, the development of irrigation is increasingly recognized as a necessary factor in agriculture, primarily because of global warming. Depending on the field conditions, the most commonly used method is sprinkler irrigation. The spray uniformity of sprinklers installed on the field irrigation equipment can be characterized by the Christiansen-uniformity coefficient (CUc%) and the distribution uniformity coefficient (DU%). Our investigations were carried out on the lateral moving irrigation equipment of University of Debrecen, Institutes for Agricultural Research and Educational Farm and Nyírbátor’s company in Hungary in 2019. Variable rate irrigation (VRI) is used in Nyírbátor. In contrast, the VRI has given positive results, making an irrigation equipment with the VRI a safer and more uniform method than a conventional linear irrigation equipment.

An Irrigation Homogenity Assessment of a Variable Rate Sprinkler Irrigation

Acta Horticulturae et Regiotecturae

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Nowadays, the development of irrigation is increasingly recognized as a necessary factor in agriculture, primarily because of global warming. Depending on the...

An Irrigation Homogenity Assessment of a Variable Rate Sprinkler Irrigation

Published Online: May 21, 2021

Page range: 8 - 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ahr-2021-0002

Keywords
irrigation, Christiansen-uniformity, distribution uniformity, crop

© 2021 Andrea Szabó et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

An Irrigation Homogenity Assessment of a Variable Rate Sprinkler Irrigation

Published Online: May 21, 2021

Page range: 8 - 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ahr-2021-0002

Keywordsirrigation, Christiansen-uniformity, distribution uniformity, crop

© 2021 Andrea Szabó et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
irrigation, Christiansen-uniformity, distribution uniformity, crop