Effects of saline water and N levels on eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) fruit yield, water productivity, and nitrogen use efficiency by drip and surface flood irrigation

Abstract

The ever-growing population is driving an increase in the food demand and increasing the need for water in agriculture. Therefore, keeping food security in view, agricultural production requires the continuous improvement of irrigation prac-tices due to the global constraints on freshwater availability and increasing demand of water in the agricultural, industrial, and urban sectors (Dalin et al. 2017;Ma et al. 2020). In the face of dwindling freshwater supplies, and an increasing require-