Limited precipitation restricts crop yield in the North China Plain, where high level of production depends largely on irrigation. Establishing the optimal irrigation scheduling according to the crop water requirement (CWR) and precipitation is the key factor to achieve rational water use. Precipitation data collected for about 40 years were employed to analyze the long-term trend, and weather ...

This paper presents the results of a collaborative work with farmers and a cost-benefit analysis of geospatial technologies applied to irrigation water management in a semi-arid agricultural area in Lower Austria. We use Earth observation (EO) data to estimate crop evapotranspiration (ET) and webGIS technologies to deliver maps and irrigation advice to farmers. The study reports the technical a...

abstract in order to study the effects of different irrigation management on water productivity of local, improved and hybrid rice varieties an experiment was carried out on a split plot design with 3 replications. the varieties were splited on 5 irrigation methods (i.e. full irrigation, awd, 5, 8 and 11 day irrigation interval) at rice research institute of iran, rasht during cropping season o...

two-year experiments was conducted to find the effect of value and times of supplementary irrigation on water requirement and yield production of three new wheat cultivar namely (‘w33g’, ‘cross alborz’ and ‘bahar’) in three replicate randomized complete block factorial experiments since 2009-11. experiments were performed at the campus of agriculture and natural resources of razi university lys...

concerning limitation of water resources, determination of the least water that can lead to the maximum yield is of great importance in crop production. in order to evaluate effects of deficit irrigation on grain yield and water use efficiency of some wheat )triticum aestivum) cultivars under different climatic conditions, two similar field experiments were conducted in 2004 in agricultural res...

abstract the application of the crop growth models could facilitate irrigation water and fertilizer management due to reduce of field visits and direct measurements. these models are often so complex that it is difficult to understand them and some of those input data are not accessible. in this study, a simple model (vsm) was used to yield prediction of corn under different water and nitrogen ...

Drought stress is considered as the most important limiting factor for growing of crops such as maize. Under low irrigation conditions, proper nutrition of plants can improve the effects of drought stress. This experiment was carried out in order to investigate the effect of nutrition management along with application of zeolite on agronomic traits of two hybrids of maize under deficit irrigati...

Water has become increasingly scarce in northwestern China due to climate change, economic growth and burgeoning population. Improving agriculture water use efficiency is of strategic significance in promoting socio-economic water productivity for arid and semi-arid inland river basins. Based on the household-level data collected in Zhangye City, which is located in the middle reaches of Heihe ...