Research Article

Is Ridge Cultivation Sustainable? A Case Study from the Haean Catchment, South Korea

Table 3

Total amount of irrigation, infiltration, surface runoff, sediment load, and erosion during the dye tracer experiments.

Experiment Total amount of irrigated water (L) Infiltration Runoff Sediment load (g) Erosion (g m−2)
(L) (%) (L) (%)

CTa 87 69 79 18 21 151.41 75.71
RTb 74 46 62 28 38 66.59 33.30
81 41 50 41 50 322.45 161.23
91 63 69 28 31 54.02 27.01

Conventional flat tillage, bridge tillage, cridge tillage with plastic mulch, dridge tillage with plastic mulch and potato crops.