Improving Water Resource Management: Evapotranspiration-Based or Tensiometer-Based Irrigation Scheduling
Improving Water Resource Management: Evapotranspiration-Based or Tensiometer-Based Irrigation Scheduling

Author(s): Elena Grancharova, Blagoj Elenov, Emilija Elenova
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Udruženje ekonomista i menadžera Balkana
Keywords: Water resource management; Evapotranspiration-based irrigation scheduling; Tensiometer-based irrigation scheduling; Strawberry
Summary/Abstract: Climate changes and competition between agriculture and other sectors for soil and water resources usage that water resource management obtains increasing significance. As a part of agricultural water resource management the choice of irrigation scheduling method influences the yield, water and fertilizer use efficiency, energy consumption, cost-effectiveness, etc. This paper focuses on the comparative analysis between evapotranspiration-based and tensiometer-based irrigation scheduling components and cost-effectiveness. Using data from a greenhouse experiment carried out with first-year strawberry plants (Fragaria x ananassa “Snow White”) in 2023 at the experimental field of Chelopechene at the Institute of Soil Science, Agrotechnologies and Plant Protection “Nikola Pushkarov”, Sofia, Bulgaria. The results show that evapotranspiration-based irrigation scheduling is more cost-effective than tensiometer-based one.

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