Irrigation with Magnetized Water: A Novel Tool for Improving Crop Production in Egypt

Abstract

Agricultural sciences take an interest not only in the common and valued cropforming factors, but also in those less expensive, safe environmentally and generally underestimated. The technology of magnetic water has been developed and subsequently used widely in the field of agriculture in many countries such as Australia, USA, China and Japan. Desperate its importance, it is not yet explored in Egypt. Therefore, the present work was carried out to study the response of some food crops using magnetized water for irrigation purpose under green house condition. Monocotyledonous such as wheat and flax and dicotyledonous such as chick-pea and lentil plants were selected for the present study. Based on the results of our experiments revealed all the plants which were irrigated with magnetic water exhibited a remarkable increase in vegetative growth and biochemical constitutions. Further the results indicated that the number of protein bands got increased in plants treated with magnetized water when compared to untreated control plants. Moreover, the magnetized water treatment increased yield and yield component traits of all crops. Over two seasons, the increases in seeds yield/plant in monocotyledonous crops reached to 9.10% and 31.33% for flax and wheat, respectively and in dicotyledonous crops reached to 24.92% and 38.46%, for lentil and check pea, respectively compared with crops irrigated with tap water. It may be concluded that the preliminary study upon the utilization of magnetized water could led to improve the quantity and quality of crop production under Egyptian condition.