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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (21): 50-55.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb19010071

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The Effects of Reducing Irrigation and Chemical Fertilizers on Nitrogen Leaching in Open-air Black Soil Vegetable Filed

  

  • Received:2019-01-13 Revised:2019-07-08 Accepted:2019-04-17 Online:2019-08-13 Published:2019-08-13

Abstract: To investigate the effects of reducing irrigation and chemical fertilizers on nitrogen leaching in open-air black soil vegetable field, a study was conducted in a Chinese cabbage field. The yield and Nitrogen leaching characteristics under regular irrigation and chemical fertilizers treatment, 80% regular chemical fertilizers treatment (reducing chemical fertilizer treatment), 80% regular irrigation treatment (reducing irrigation treatment) and 80% regular chemical fertilizers and 80% regular irrigation treatment with straw buried deep (reducing irrigation and chemical fertilizers with straw returning treatment) were analyzed. The results show that: nitrogen distribution of four treatments changed regularly with the increase of soil depth. Soil ammonium contents decreased with the increase of soil depth,and soil nitrate content in soil reached the lowest value in the 40-60cm soil layer and then slowly increased. Compared with regular irrigation and chemical fertilizers treatment, both reducing irrigation and chemical fertilizers with straw returning treatment and reducing irrigation treatment significantly reduced nitrate and ammonium contents of in deeper soil (p<0.05), reducing the risk of nitrogen leaching. With the growth of Chinese cabbage, nitrate contents in the leachate of all treatments gradually increased, while ammonium contents gradually decreased. During each growth period of Chinese cabbage, compared with the regular irrigation and chemical fertilizers treatment, the other treatments significantly reduced nitrate and ammonium contents in the soil leachate (p<0.05), and reducing irrigation and chemical fertilizers with straw returning has the best effect on reducing ammonium leaching. Compared with the regular irrigation and chemical fertilizer treatment, The yield of Chinese cabbage was significantly reduced by 1.98% (p<0.05) in the reducing irrigation and chemical fertilizers with straw returning treatment, while reducing chemical fertilizers or irrigation did not significantly affect the yield. The reducing irrigation not only reduced ammonium and nitrate leaching in soil, but also had no significant impact on Chinese cabbage yield. We concluded that the reducing irrigation treatment was the best practice as it maximized economic benefits and minimized potential environmental non-point pollution. Keywords: reducing irrigation and chemical fertilizers; open-air vegetable field black soil; nitrogen leaching; yield