Produção de mudas de tamarindo irrigadas com águas salinizadas sob adubação nitrogenada.

Abstract

The northeast presents water deficit and irregular rainfall, besides high temperatures, requiring for rational agricultural exploitation, the use of irrigation.The low availability in the semi-arid region of good quality water for irrigation often necessitates the use of salt water, and this use is dependent on the development of techniques that make sustainable agricultural exploitation possible, that is, without harming the environment.The objective of this research was to evaluate the production of tamarind seedlings cultivated with Criolla irrigated with salinized waters under nitrogen fertilization.The experiment was carried out in a protected environment (greenhouse) at the Agro-Food Science and Technology Center of the Federal University of Campina Grande Pombal-PB.The experimental design was a randomized complete block design in a 5 x 4 factorial scheme with four replications and two plants per plot. The treatments consisted of five levels of electrical conductivity of irrigation water (0.3, 1.3, 2.3, 3.3 and 4.3 dS m-1) in interaction with four nitrogen doses (70, 100, 130 And 160% The dose of 100% corresponds to 600 mg of nitrogen dm-3 tamarind seedlings).The seedlings production was evaluated through the different growth variables: plant height, stem diameter and number of leaves in the period of 90 days after the application of the treatments (DAT) and the variables of fresh and dry phytomass of leaves, leaves , Aerial part, root, and total dry, in the period of 135 (DAT).In the production of tamarind seedlings, water of electrical conductivity of 1.7 dS m-1 can be used as it provides an acceptable average reduction of 10% in growth. Doses of N varying from 70 to 160 mg of N dm-3 of soil as well, the interaction between the studied factors did not have an effect on the variables studied.