Wastewater and sewage, in particular industrial sewage, is one of the most important environmental pollution factors (pollutants) that should be collected properly, refined and returned to the water cycle in the nature in order to be used for the development and exploitation of new water resources, especially in Agriculture sector. So not only part of the country’s agricultural water shortage can be compensated, but also the adverse effects of sewage discharge into the environment can be prevented. In order to reuse industrial wastewater in agriculture, a research project was conducted in Lorestan Province at Nasr Alcohol Production Plant in a randomized complete block design with three treatments and four replications by planting the cultivar Single Cross 704. The irrigation method in this project was determined by plotting and treatments included non-refined and refined wastewater, and ordinary water. Vegetation indicators such as forage yield (fresh and dry weight), leaf area index, height growth, moisture content and presence of some heavy elements including lead, cadmium and arsenic, as well as nitrate content in forage corn shoot were measured and monitored. The irrigation of this project was carried out according to the region pattern and according to the water requirement of forage corn. Also, for analyzing the data, statistical software SPSS was used. The results of analysis of the data related to morphological features of corn showed that height growth, number of corn (ear) per plant, number of plants per unit area, yield of forage fresh and dry weight, seed fresh and dry weight, and number of seeds per row of corn were superior in the treatment of 50% waste water in comparison with  other treatments, which shows positive effects of 50% waste water application even in comparison with the control treatment. Also, the amount of nitrate absorbed in corn seed and shoot in irrigation treatment with 50 waste water has been increased to a very low level and below the threshold of environmental hazards. Arsenic was not observed in corn seed and shoot.

refined wastewater, corn, Lorestan, alcohol production plant, irrigation.

Received: December 2, 2020; Revised: August 21, 2021; Accepted: September 18, 2021; Published: October 20, 2021

How to cite this article: Hooshang Nasiri, Ali Niazi, Atisa Yazdanipour and Tahereh Momeni-Isfahania, Evaluation of the effects of irrigation with wastewater on some vegetation features characteristic of the cultivar single cross 704 of forage corn (maize) in Khorramabad (case study Shahid Rasouli Biological Industries Co.), JP Journal of Biostatistics 18(3) (2021), 475-487. DOI: 10.17654/BS018010475

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