relationship between ET and SWC was influenced by irrigation patterns. Canopy conductance influenced ET variability at the 1-day … time-scale, but the effect was not consistent across the growing seasons. Our results show the importance of irrigation … practices and its influence on the multi-temporal correlations of ET and its controlling factors. Irrigation can sharply change …

evaluating recent national policy initiatives and public investment programmes over the last decade to modernise irrigation … debates and discussions over the past, current and future role of irrigation, key evaluation criteria and objectives for large … scale irrigation modernisation plans, what are the links to water rights and allocation, benefits and beneficiaries from …

to the soil nitrate-N, the amount of N applied as fertilizer and grain yield. The effect of irrigation and N … without irrigation accumulated in the 0–0.2m depth and nitrate-N did not significantly decrease, due to minimal crop N uptake … both irrigation treatments (R=0.614; R=0.648), and in the wet year (2008) in the non-irrigated treatment at the V12 growth …

quality are largely dependent on irrigation, and given the large area of this crop in this region. Under semi-arid conditions …, grapevine water consumption rises up to 700mm/year (rainfall plus irrigation), thus great water amounts are needed for areas … (diurnal time) and space (at eight canopy positions) under irrigation, moderate and severe water stress in field …

England, farmers are under regulatory pressure to improve irrigation efficiency; indeed, demonstrating efficient water use is … now a prerequisite for renewing an irrigation abstraction licence (permit). However, there are differences between the … approach when assessing irrigation performance at the farm level, since any managerial (e.g. scheduling) and operational (e …

that climate change leads to a strong increase in optimal water use for irrigation, with consequent increases in maize … yields. However, our analysis also reveals that the consideration of economic drivers for farmers’ irrigation decisions is … find strong implications of risk aversion and price variability on irrigation decisions. A doubling of price variability …

Groundwater provides many valuable services to society, especially as a source of irrigation water. However, over … values for irrigated agricultural land located in California's Central Valley — an irrigation-intensive region with …

energy sources, which will necessitate increased production and, correspondingly, increased irrigation. The aim of this work … to soil water tensions of 15, 30, 45, 60 and 75kPa beyond the tension found with no irrigation (Ni), at a depth of 0.20m …

We examined the effect of different irrigation and nitrogen (N) fertilizer levels on Zea mays L. (maize) on nitrate … environment. Our experiment used two maize varieties (Zhongnong 99 [Z99] and Lainong 14 [L14]), two levels of irrigation (525 and … was 77.22kgNha−1 for Z99 and 47.86kgNha−1 for L14 (200-kgNha−1 urea; 525mm irrigation). The minimum and maximum seasonal …