The major global challenge for the coming decades will be increasing crop production with less water consumption. Precision agriculture (PA) and variable deficit irrigation (VDI) are management strategies that help farmers to improve production, fertilizer’s efficiency, use efficiency (WUE). effects of (IR1 = irrigation; IR2 farmers’ common practices) under three fertilization (Ft1, Ft2, Ft3) t...

to investigate the effect of deficit irrigation on quantitative and qualitative yield of soybean cultivars, an experiment was conducted as split plots based on randomized complete block design with three replications at agricultural research farm, university of guilan, during 2009. main factors were included four irrigation levels based on potential moisture 30-35 (i1), 50-55 (i2), 70-75 (i3) c...

Agricultural irrigation practices will likely be affected by climate change. In this paper, we use a statistical model relating observed water use by U.S. producers to the moisture deficit, and then use this statistical model to project climate changes impact on both the fraction of agricultural land irrigated and the irrigation rate (m³ ha⁻¹). Data on water withdrawals for US states (1985-2005...

ABSTRACT Water management is an essential concept for water intensive crop such as maize dealing with water shortage under drought conditions. Maize production is ranked after wheat and barely in Fars province, Iran. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effects of planting methods by conventional and modified planters on maize growth and yield at different irrigation re...

Flat and cylindrical adhesive boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), pheromone traps captured significantly more (P < or = 0.05) boll weevils than the Hercon (Hercon Environmental, Emigsville, PA) trap during the late cotton-growing season, and larger adhesive areas were associated with higher captures; a flat plywood board collected the most boll weevils b...

Intensive crop production and irrational use of fertilizers agrochemicals have questionable effects on the quality products sustainable water for agricultural purposes. Organic cultivation and/or deficit irrigation are, among others, well appreciated practices a system. In present study, spearmint plants (Mentha spicata L.) were grown in different schemes (conventional versus organic cultivatio...

lysimeter tests were conducted on shallow groundwater that supplies part of the maize water requirements to determine crop yield. twenty-four 0.8 m diameter lysimeters were buried in the test field at a depth of 1.2 m. the lysimeters were filled with the field soil (silty loam) and planted with summer maize. the groundwater depth in the lysimeters was set at 0.6 m using marriotte bottles. three...