Research activities are conducted in the
department aimed at the improvement and rational utilization of soil and water
resources to ensure sustainability. This includes planning, operation, and
management of irrigation systems using appropriate technologies, enhancing performance
in irrigated agriculture, improving water use efficiency, reclaiming
problematic soils such as saline and sodic soils for agricultural use,
identifying and developing economical reclamation technologies, determining
plant adaptation and selecting salt-tolerant plants in saline and alkali soils,
identifying economic improvement methods to maintain desired salt balance in
irrigated soils, optimizing irrigation and drainage systems, developing and
calibrating computer models to reduce moisture and salinity risks in irrigated
areas, selecting the most suitable crop varieties based on irrigation water
quality, determining agricultural measures to achieve optimum yields, assessing
the quality and usability of domestic, industrial, and wastewater as irrigation
water sources, inventorying water quality and irrigation water resources,
determining the use of low-quality waters for irrigation purposes.
Additionally, research focuses on the use of renewable energy sources to
promote rational use of scarce resources and widespread adoption of
environmentally friendly energy efficiency systems, as well as the development
of alternatives. Furthermore, research activities aim to identify appropriate
techniques and methods for the use of limited water resources.