| Abstract | The field experiments were conducted during summer season of 2009/2010 in Agricultural Experimental Farm, at in Kafrelshiehk University to study the effects of irrigation system on crops, under different intercropping of cotton and tomato.,
The main results could be summarized as follows
- Drip irrigation system increased seed cotton yield by about of 30.4% and 27.78% compared with furrow irrigation and the perforated pipes respectively, where the average value of seed cotton yield for drip irrigation system was 6.48 kentar?/feddan.
- Increasing ridges length tended to decrease both of cotton and tomato yield for furrow irrigation but increasing length of ridges tended to increase tomato yield under perforated pipes and drip irrigation system.
- Using perforated pipes and drip irrigation had developed the water application efficiency compared with traditional furrow irrigation because they used less irrigation water, increase amount of water stored in root zone (saved of irrigation water) and gave a highest value of production.
- The highest value of water distribution efficiency was 97.3% using drip irrigation with 25 m ridges length and cotton plants were grown on the two sides of the ridges and tomato plants in the middle of the same ridges.
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