Quantifying the impact of irrigation on groundwater reserve and crop production – A case study in the North China Plain》.pdf

Europ. J. Agronomy 70 (2015) 48–56 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect European Journal of Agronomy j o u rn al h omepage: w w w. elsev /locate/eja Quantifying the impact of irrigation on groundwater reserve and crop production – A case study in the North China Plain Hongyong Sun a , Xiying Zhang a,∗ , Enli Wang b , Suying Chen a , Liwei Shao a a Key Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, The Centerfor Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050021, China b CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The North China Plain (NCP) is one of the main grain production regions in China. However, the annual Received 7 January 2015 double cropping system of winter wheat and maize consumed a large amount of groundwater, has led Received in revised form 1 July 2015 to decline in groundwater table. For conservation of groundwater resource, deficit irrigation is promoted Accepted 7 July 2015 to reduce irrigation water use in recent years. This study combined process-based modeling and exper- imental data together to evaluate the effects of different irrigation strategies on crop production and Keywords: groundwater table change for the past three decades in NCP. Data from a six year field trial (2006–2012) Evapotranspiration