Abstract
Drip irrigation is a highly efficient method for watering crops, as it delivers water directly to the roots and minimises wastage due to evaporation or runoff. This paper presents the development and implementation of a low-cost drip irrigation control system that uses both time- and soil sensor-based approaches. The system’s efficiency was compared through a field experiment of melon growing, divided into three categories and four replications using a completely randomised design. The treatments include: T1 [time-based irrigation (TBI)], T2 [soil moisture-based irrigation (SMI)], and T3 [hand watering irrigation system (HWI)]. Results indicated that the TBI technique resulted in faster plant growth compared to the other treatments, as evidenced by increased leaf widths, lengths, numbers, and stem diameter. All irrigation techniques showed significant differences in yield characteristics, with TBI and SMI producing no differences in the first flowering day of female fruit widths, lengths, and weight of melon. However, the HWI treatment resulted in lower fruit length and weight yields. Cost analysis showed that the system is beneficial as a very low-cost device that is affordable, precise, and useful for measuring and controlling irrigation-related parameters for melon cultivation.
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Claim · model-written summary
Time-based irrigation (TBI) produced faster melon plant growth than the other treatments.
- Taxon
- melon
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Cucumis melot0 - Treatment
- TBIe1
- Outcome
- plant growthe1
- Direction
- fastere1
- Comparator
- the other treatmentse1
- Setting
- field experimente3
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Verbatim
t0“Enhancing melon yield”
e1“Results indicated that the TBI technique resulted in faster plant growth compared to the other treatments, as evidenced by increased leaf widths, lengths, numbers, and stem diameter”
e3“field experiment”
Claim · model-written summary
Time-based irrigation (TBI) increased melon leaf widths, lengths and numbers compared with the other treatments.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- TBIe1
- Outcome
- leaf widths, lengths, numberse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Comparator
- the other treatmentse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Enhancing melon yield”
e1“Results indicated that the TBI technique resulted in faster plant growth compared to the other treatments, as evidenced by increased leaf widths, lengths, numbers, and stem diameter”
Claim · model-written summary
Time-based irrigation (TBI) increased melon stem diameter compared with the other treatments.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- TBIe1
- Outcome
- stem diametere1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Comparator
- the other treatmentse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Enhancing melon yield”
e1“Results indicated that the TBI technique resulted in faster plant growth compared to the other treatments, as evidenced by increased leaf widths, lengths, numbers, and stem diameter”
Claim · model-written summary
The irrigation techniques showed significant differences in melon yield characteristics.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- irrigation techniquese4
- Outcome
- yield characteristicse4
Not reportedComparatorDirection
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Verbatim
t0“Enhancing melon yield”
e4“All irrigation techniques showed significant differences in yield characteristics”
Claim · model-written summary
Time-based (TBI) and soil moisture-based (SMI) irrigation produced no difference in the first flowering day of melon.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- TBIe5
- Outcome
- first flowering daye5
- Direction
- no differencese5
- Comparator
- SMIe5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Enhancing melon yield”
e5“with TBI and SMI producing no differences in the first flowering day of female fruit widths, lengths, and weight of melon”
Claim · model-written summary
Time-based (TBI) and soil moisture-based (SMI) irrigation produced no difference in melon female fruit widths, lengths and weight.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- TBIe5
- Outcome
- female fruit widths, lengths, and weighte5
- Direction
- no differencese5
- Comparator
- SMIe5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Enhancing melon yield”
e5“with TBI and SMI producing no differences in the first flowering day of female fruit widths, lengths, and weight of melon”
Claim · model-written summary
Hand watering (HWI) lowered melon fruit length and weight yields.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- HWIe6
- Outcome
- fruit length and weighte6
- Direction
- lowere6
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Enhancing melon yield”
e6“the HWI treatment resulted in lower fruit length and weight yields”
Claim · model-written summary
The low-cost drip irrigation control system is a very low-cost, affordable device for melon cultivation.
Verbatim
e7“a very low-cost device that is affordable, precise, and useful for measuring and controlling irrigation-related parameters for melon cultivation”
e0“Cost analysis showed that the system is beneficial”
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