We investigated the effect of different irrigation and fertilizer regimes on yield of 9-year old pomegranate trees during 2011 and 2012. The experimental design was a split plot as complete randomized blocks with three replications. The main plots contained five irrigation treatments as...

Yield, cost, and revenue functions of potato (cv. Agria) were developed from field experiments in 2007–2008, which were designed to determine the response of tuber yield to no irrigation for two weeks at tuber bulking (TB) and tuber ripening (TR). Deficit-irrigated treatments were compared to...

Several maize field experiments, including deficit and full irrigation, were used to assess irrigation impacts on yields. The SIMDualKc water balance model was first calibrated and validated to obtain the basal crop coefficients (Kcb) and the depletion fractions for no stress (p) relative to all...

The need for sophisticated irrigation strategies in fruit tree orchards has led to an increasing interest in reliable and robust sensor technology that allows automatic and continuous recording of the water stress of trees under field conditions. In this work we have evaluated the potential of...

Improving surface irrigation systems for cotton in Ras-El-Ain district, Northeast Syria, needs finding alternative solutions that provide for both water saving and farm economic benefits in a context of small and family farms. Multicriteria analysis was used to evaluate and rank a set of furrow...

Limitations on water resources for agriculture in places such as Colorado, USA, have caused farmers to consider limited irrigation as an alternative to full irrigation practices, where the crop is intentionally stressed during specific growth stages in an effort to maximize yield per unit water...

Crop growth simulation models of varying complexity have been developed for predicting the effects of soil, water and nutrients on grain and biomass yields and water productivity of different crops. These models are calibrated and validated for a given region using the data generated from field...

Field experiments were conducted at Agricultural College and Research Institute, Coimbatore, India during 2007–2009 to study the effect of deficit irrigation practices implemented through drip irrigation system on cotton–maize cropping sequence. Creation of soil moisture gradient is...

Grapefruit (Citrus paradisi Macf.) has increased in importance as a crop species in the south-east of Spain in recent years. In spite of the fact that grapefruit is well adapted to semi-arid conditions, the irrigation necessities for fresh fruit production continue to be very high. The scarcity...

The development of water-conserving and sustainable agricultural management practices is essential and significant to alleviate the rapid depletion of groundwater resources in the North China Plain (NCP). Estimating drainage out of the root zone and improving water use efficiency could provide a...