Mismanagement of irrigation water and the ensuing secondary salinization are threatening the sustainability of irrigated agriculture especially in many dryland regions. The permanent raised-bed/furrow system, a water-wise conservation agriculture-based practice, is gaining importance for row-...

The paper analyses the total factor productivity (TFP) of crop sector at the district/region levels and identifies the sources of TFP growth in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The study concludes that TFP growth is decelerating and large areas under crops in a number of districts are showing clear...

Traditional water allocation at a regional or basin scale can be too coarse to be used in a local area such as a village. For example, in the hilly area of Sichuan Basin the landform is fragmented and land use pattern consists of small farms. Furthermore, seasonal drought occurs frequently due...

The effects of different crops and cropping systems on agricultural water use were explored for the region of Handan, Hebei province, P.R. China, with the goal of achieving more water-sustainable crop production and to ensure regional food security. The evapotranspiration of different crops and...

Double cropping is an option to increase feed production from a unit of land. However, summer crop yields may be depressed due to shortened length of growing season and elevated drought risk. We studied the effect of double cropping winter small grain silage crops (rye, Secale cereale L. and...

Crop water requirement and the temporal and spatial changes of this important characteristic provide key information for irrigation scheduling, water resource planning, and future decision-making. In the Huang-Huai-Hai (HHH) farming region in north China, both crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and...

The development of a method to estimate the seasonal crop coefficient (Kc) would be of great benefit to irrigated agriculture. We examined the simulation capacities of CropSyst for determining crop water use of Japanese plum under varying growing conditions. These conditions involved weather...

A two-year field experiment was conducted with drip irrigation and plastic mulch to investigate an appropriate irrigation management strategy for chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). Five treatments, with the soil matric potential (SMP) threshold range of −10 to −50kPa at intervals of 10kPa,...

The impact of climate change on cotton yields in seven main arable crop sites in Greece (Agrinio, Alexandroupoli, Arta, Karditsa, Mikra, Pyrgos, Yliki) was investigated. The FAO AquaCrop (v.4) water driven model was used as a crop growth simulation tool under eight climatic models (HadRM3, C4I,...

In lieu of the decreasing availability of water for irrigated rice, we examined two alternatives to traditional rice cultivation on puddled and saturated soil–maize and dry-seeded rice production grown with an overhead sprinkler irrigation system. We characterized the inter-seasonal daily...