The Role of Rice Straw and Zeolite Cracked Paddy Soil Improvement

آب و خاک

Article 11, Volume 27, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 103-112   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/jsw.v0i0.22211

Authors

M. Alizadeh^* ; F. Mirzaei; T. Sohrabi; M. Kavoosi; M.R. Yazdani

Abstract

Water management in cracked paddy soils is an important issue in rice cultivation. In order to investigate the effect of rice straw and zeolite and their interaction effect on the physical condition of soils of paddy fields and prevention of crack, rice straw factor at four levels (0, 0.5, 1 and 1.5 percent) zeolite factor at four levels (0, 8, 16 and 24 tons per hectare) and also moisture stages of soil which are wet and dry stages at 5 levels which have been studied in three replication as factorial based on the complete randomized block design in Rice Research Institute of Iran. Soil distance from the wall of the container, the width of cracks, a few days to reach the crack with a certain width, bulk density and surface cracks were measured. Results showed that adding high levels of residue to delay the occurrence of cracks. However, the addition of zeolite has no significant effect in delaying the cracks. The relationship between bulk density and surface cracks that follow the linear equation, With increasing cracks surface, bulk density is increased. Finally, Can be concluded that the addition of plant residues, causing disappearance of existing cracks and returned to the soil to be the initial state.

Keywords

Zeolite; Plant residues; Paddy Soil; Crack