HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2020, Vol. 59 ›› Issue (13): 39-42.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2020.13.010

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Effects of summer drought and soil humidity on spring corn and winter wheat yield

ZHANG Hong-ni1,2, ZHANG Tian-feng2, CHE Xiang-jun2, ZHANG Miao-miao2, GOU Rui2   

  1. 1. Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology,China Meteorological Administration/Gansu Key Laboratory of Arid Climate Change and Reducing Disaster/Key Laboratory of Arid Climate Change and Reducing Disaster, China Meteorological Administration,Lanzhou 730020,China;
    2. Qingyang Meteorological Bureau, Qingyang 745000,Gansu,China
  • Received:2019-08-13 Online:2020-07-10 Published:2020-09-03

Abstract: Using the precipitation data from the eight weather stations of Qingyang LOESS plateau from 1971 to 2018, the spatial distribution characteristics of the precipitation and drought were first analyzed, and the time change laws of precipitation were analyzed. The relationship between drought, spring corn and winter wheat yield was analyzed. It is then used to represent the data of soil relative humidity in the winter wheat field from spring 1994 to 2018 and winter wheat field from 1986 to 2015 at the Xifeng Agricultural meteorological experimental station on the Dongzhi plateau in the loess plateau. The relationship between soil relative humidity and spring corn and winter wheat production is analyzed. The results showed that the lowest precipitation was 123.7 mm in Zhenyuan weather station, 125.3 mm in Huanxian weather station, 162.5 mm in Zhengning weather station, and 149.9 mm in Huachi weather station. Precipitation decreases from East to West. The highest frequency of drought is 41.7% in Heshui, Qingcheng and Huachi, and 31.1% in Ningxian county, and the frequency decreases from northeast to southwest. Precipitation was less in the 1970s, more in the 1980s and 1990s, less in the 2020s, and more in 2011—2018. The average yield of corn per hectare was 960.0 kg/hm2 higher than that of the spring of the drought; The average yield height of winter wheat is 1 599.0 kg/hm2. The average yield of maize is 2287.5 kg/hm2 higher than that of soil relative humidity. The average yield height of winter wheat is 705.5 kg/hm2.

Key words: peripheral drought, relative soil humidity, spring corn, winter wheat, Qingyang loess plateau

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