Investigation of Feasibility and Effect of Alternative Farming System on the Grain Yield of Barley and Forage Production in Western Semi-arid Region of Golestan Province, Iran

Journal of Rangeland Science

مقاله 4، دوره 13، شماره 2، تیر 2023، صفحه 155-167   

نوع مقاله: Research and Full Length Article

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.30495/rs.2023.688855

نویسندگان

Armin Arrekhi^{* 1}؛ Hamid Niknahad Gharmakher²؛ Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath Kimura³؛ Johann Bachinger⁴؛ Ralf Bloch⁵

¹Leibniz-Zentrum

²Department of Rangeland Management, College of Rangeland and Watershed Managemet, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

³Humboldt University of Berlin

⁴Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany

⁵Professor at Department of Agroecology and Sustainable Cropping Systems at Eberswalde University of Sustainable Development

چکیده

One of the major challenges in semi-arid regions of Iran is to supply the adequate forage for livestock and meanwhile prevent the destruction of rangelands due to overgrazing. Therefore, this study aimed to compare three cropping systems of barley using Salsola turcomanica (ST), and Chrysopogon zizanioides (CZ) in three treatments of barley+ST, barley+ST+CZ and mono-culture of barley. Two-year field trials data were collected from November 2018 to October 2020 in two experimental sites using a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with four replications. The results of analysis of variance over two years indicated that the effects of year, location, and year by location interaction were significant (p<0.01) for all of barley’s yield components. Mixed cropping of barley with other species had no negative effect on barley traits such as grain yield, straw yield and harvest index. In addition, the mixed cropping of barley+ST and barley+ST+CZ in the first year produced 2.5 t/ha more forage yield than that mono-culture of barley. This was due to high production of Salsola (ST), in mixed cropping. In both years, yield of Salsola production was about 25% of whole produced biomass. Drastic reduction in rainfall in the second year reduced the obtained yield; so, there was no significant difference among three cropping systems in the second year. However, cropping systems of barley+ST and barley+ST+CZ produced about 1 t/ha more forage than that for the mono-culture of barley. Mixed cropping of barley +ST+CZ did not affect yield components of barley. Mixed cropping of barley with Salsola turcomanica could guarantee soil cover throughout the year and is recommended for forage production in rangeland in Iran. 

کلیدواژه‌ها

Barley؛ Salsola turcomanica؛ Chrysopogon zizanioides؛ Mixed cropping

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