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Water availability for irrigation is a limiting factor for agriculture in Mediterranean countries. An upcoming strategy … for increasing water supply is to use treated wastewater for irrigation. A principal drawback of irrigating with … low quality surface water used for irrigation experiments contained a significant proportion of urban sewage and was …
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Irrigation efficiency is a critical factor in irrigation water management. Irrigation efficiency is used in economic … analysis when selecting an irrigation system design, and in irrigation management. It is also used in water rights adjudication … and administration. On-farm irrigation efficiency is spatially and temporally variable and measuring irrigation efficiency …
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for irrigation scheduling, water resource planning, and future decision-making. In the Huang-Huai-Hai (HHH) farming region … significantly due to yearly fluctuation of the effective rainfall (Re) in the growing season, and the improvement of irrigation … highest ETaw value of about 109.6mm was found in the western regions of the Shandong and Hebei Provinces. Adjusting irrigation …
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. Moreover, the irrigation process was modified to avoid overflows from paddy fields during irrigation management. Furthermore …
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A risk farmers have to cope with is annual changes in the availability of irrigation water. In this paper the … relationship between irrigation water allocated to farmers and the incomes they derive in the Coleambally Irrigation Areas (CIA) in …
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The FAO AquaCrop model has been conceived as a tool for simulating, on a daily scale, the canopy cover (CC), biomass and the actual evapotranspiration and for simulating, on a seasonal scale, the final biomass, the harvested yield, the cumulate actual evapotranspiration, and the crop water use...
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improvements in availability of irrigation water, a revival of the agricultural economy of the region, and substantial increases in … promising private small irrigation option in Madhya Pradesh and similar regions in India and elsewhere. …
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Irrigation is a priority development agenda item in Ghana and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. There is a genuine … irrigation development that is largely based on water lifting technologies is not yet fully appreciated. We propose that … smallholders themselves can play a significant role in achieving national irrigation development plans, provided they have access …
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Excessive amounts of irrigation water and fertilizers are often utilized for early potato cultivation in the … crucial to provide an adequate irrigation and fertilization management. With the aim of achieving an appropriate combination … of irrigation water and nutrient application in cultivation management of a potato crop in a Mediterranean environment, a …
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, minimizing closing errors and assessing changes in the hydrologic regime. The main water inputs [irrigation (I) and precipitation … (P)] and outputs [outflow (Q) and potential (ETc) crop evapotranspiration] in the 4000-ha La Violada irrigation district …
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