Wheat Nitrogen Fertilizer Management Using GreenSeeker Handheld Crop Canopy Sensor

Mohammed A Naser

doi:10.56201/ijaes.vol.11.no3.2025.pg12.22

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Wheat Nitrogen Fertilizer Management Using GreenSeeker Handheld Crop Canopy Sensor

Mohammed A Naser

Abstract

One of the essential factors in increasing agricultural yields of cereal crops is increasing the grain yield without increasing production costs. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the main crop in the food basket of the entire world. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the appropriate nitrogen (N) requirements to obtain the optimal production of wheat crops by investigating the impact of different N levels on the wheat crop yield in the Al-Muthanna region, as well as determining the possibility of predicting grain yield using the GreenSeeker handheld proximal crop canopy sensor- based differences vegetative difference index (NDVI). Thus, there is a need to re-evaluate the previous recommendations using remote sensing techniques. The experimental treatments were five levels of N fertilizer including (0 Kg N ha-1, 50 kg N ha-1, 100 kg N ha-1,150 kg N ha-1, and 200 kg N ha-1, and each N level was divided into 100%, 70%, 50% percentages, respectively. This study was conducted at the Experiment Station and Agriculture Research of the College of Agriculture- Al-Muthanna University. The NDVI measurements were obtained at FK5, FK7, and FK9 according to the Feekes scale growth stage. The results indicated significant differences in grain yield between different levels of N fertilizer and a 70% percentage outperformed on the 100% and 50% treatments for each of the two N levels of 200 and 150 kg ha-1. The results also show significant differences between NDVI values for different N fertilizer levels. The NDVI readings and wheat yield values increased and followed a similar pattern with increasing N fertilizer levels. This suggests that NDVI can predict wheat grain yield when the NDVI is not saturated. This study showed the potential of using GreenSeeker proximal crop canopy sensor-based NDVI readings as a useful tool to predict wheat grain yield.

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Wheat cropN fertilizationNDVIGreenSeekerProximal sensor.

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