irrigated agriculture
The Economic Impact on the Local Economy of Irrigated Agriculture in the Paso Robles Area and Potential Impacts of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
... occur. Irrigated agriculture overall will also have significant losses, with an estimated 4% to 11% decline in the total value of SLO County production ...
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Irrigated agriculture for food self-sufficiency in the sub-Saharan African region
... and challenge in sprinkling are to uniformly apply water to a field. Scheduling of sprinkler irrigation is similar to that of flood; return of plant available water in the soil each event. Drip irrigation presents a ...
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GlobWat – a global water balance model to assess water use in irrigated agriculture
... in agriculture is only one of the components of the water balance rather than the main focus of ...global agriculture land use data such as that available through FAO and IIASA’s Global Agro-Ecological ...
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Optimal integrated management of groundwater resources and irrigated agriculture in arid coastal regions
... profit-oriented agriculture vs aquifer sustainability, a multi-objective optimisation is performed which can provide sustainable solutions for water and agricultural management over long-term periods at farm and ...
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Evaluation of groundwater quality for irrigated agriculture in marudaiyar sub basin, Tamil Nadu
... In the study area, the C4-S2 water type occupies 6.25 percent (Kuttur and Naranamanaglama) during the pre-monsoon period. In post-monsoon period it occupies only in Garudamangalam, which is 3.12 per cent. These types of ...
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A framework for the use of decision support tools at various spatial scales for the management of irrigated agriculture in West Africa
... The main irrigation water users are presented in Fig- ure 1. In the upstream regions, river banks and low lands are occupied by informal irrigated agriculture. The occu- pied surface has been estimated at ...
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Observations of increased cloud cover over irrigated agriculture in an arid environment
... Irrigated agriculture accounts for 20% of global cropland area and may alter climate locally and globally, but feedbacks on clouds and rainfall remain highly uncertain, particularly in arid ...how ...
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Influence of irrigated agriculture on soil microbial diversity
... Ribosomal molecules have highly conserved sequence domains interspersed with hypervariable regions (Kirk et al., 2004; Head et al., 1998), and it is these variable domains that can be used distinguish one microbe from ...
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Impact of Climate Change on Irrigated Agriculture in Sardinia Region
... This work develops a methodology to assess the impact of global warming on irrigated agriculture. The analysis is conducted in three irrigation districts located in Sardinia region. The impact of climate ...
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Can global precipitation datasets benefit the estimation of the area to be cropped in irrigated agriculture?
... As water becomes scarce, efficient decision-making based on solid information becomes increasingly important (Svend- sen, 2005). Solid information on climate variability and cli- mate change is key to adequately ...
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Polyacrylamide effects on infiltration in irrigated agriculture
... (1996) tested this hypothesis by comparing steady-state infiltration of PAM-treated and control furrows under slightly unsaturated conditions. Unlike the net infiltration and transient s[r] ...
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Effects of irrigated agriculture on water and soil quality (case perimeter Guelma, Algeria)
... of irrigated soils and the EC is much lower than for non-irrigated soils (Table ...of irrigated soils is due to salt leaching by per- colated waters after intensive irrigation (FAO 1985; Moreira ...
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Allocative efficiency, tenure and technology in irrigated agriculture : a case study of the Pakistan Punjab
... Following Saini (1979)^ land input in the sample data is measured in acres. Since all sample areas come from irrigated areas, variation in land productivity is not expected to be high. On the assumption that more ...
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Reuse of Municipal Wastewater in Irrigated Agriculture as a Strategy to Deal with the Water Scarcity Crisis
... Nowadays, the water crisis is one of the challenges that World is faced with. The lack of water resources has encouraged the researchers to use of non- ordinary waters including salinity waters, municipal and industrial ...
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Water Saving Innovation In Urban Landscaping And Irrigated Agriculture By Using Austrablend®Multi Mineral Root Zone Conditioner
... ABMMRZC). Agriculture grade sandy soil was used to develop the rootzone layer with a mixture of animal manure to improve soil fertility and structure ...was irrigated with water of pH ...were ...
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Green and blue water footprint reduction in irrigated agriculture: effect of irrigation techniques, irrigation strategies and mulching
... Water footprint reduction in irrigated crop production is the way forward for efficient and sustainable water resource use. This paper provides the first detailed and comprehensive study regarding the potential ...
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PAM in irrigated agriculture: Processes and soil-PAM interactions influencing canal sealing
... One way to evaluate the economic value of seepage control treatments is to examine the cost of irrigation water saved by the treatment, relative to its value to the producer (Lentz and Kincaid, 2008). One assumes that ...
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Integrated management of water resources demand and supply in irrigated agriculture from plot to regional scale
... Figure 3 shows the regional development for beans in dif- ferent temporal periods P1 to P4. The upper left picture dis- plays the non-irrigated regional crop yield in P1. A decrease from south to north based on ...
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Constraints on conservation tillage under dryland and irrigated agriculture in the United States Pacific Northwest
... Subsoiling in furrow or sprinkler irrigation and basin or reservoir tillage under sprinkler irrigation are examples of tillage operations that may take place in otherwise conventional sy[r] ...
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SWAGMAN-Whatif, an interactive computer program to teach salinity relationships in irrigated agriculture
... On program execution, the right side shows, in tabular form, the effects of salinity and soil water content on relative crop yield, water table depth changes, and root zone salinity chan[r] ...
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