Study of saffron yield in dry land farming and irrigated conditions in a period of six years in the city of Khorramabad Province

Khademi, Karim; Sepahvand, Ali; Siahmansour, Reza; Mohammadian, Ali; Ahmadi, Shahla

doi:10.22077/jsr.2013.438

Study of saffron yield in dry land farming and irrigated conditions in a period of six years in the city of Khorramabad Province

Document Type : Original Article

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10.22077/jsr.2013.438

Abstract

In order to investigate the quantitative characteristics of saffron in the city of Khorramabad climatic conditions characterized by moderate rainfall and annual temperatures of 520 mm and 17.5°C and with a height of 1150 m above sea level, was carried out based on a randomized complete block design with three replications and six years during years from 2006 to 2011 under dry land farming and irrigated conditions. The results showed that the fourth and fifth withs a total yield 12.8 and 12.2 kg.ha-1 of dried saffron were more than others treatments and the second, third and sixth years with 5.3, 5.99 and 7.04 kg.ha-1 in the middle group and first year with 0.4 kg.ha-1 was lower group, rewspectively. There wasn’t any significant difference between irrigated and dry land farming cultivation with the average yield of 7.5 and 7.1 kg.ha-1 during the six years of study. The result also showed that there wasn’t any meaning difference between the production of corm in irrigated and dry farming conditions with the yield of 23.9 and 22.9 t.ha-1 , respectively.

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