water scarcity is a major factor for limiting crop growth and development in arid and semi-arid regions. in order to study the effects of varying timing and severity of water deficit on mung bean phenological traits, a field experiment was carried out during 2009 growing season at agricultural research institute of zabol university. the experiment was laid out in split plot by using a randomize...

nowadays, the limitation of water resources are added on the importance of detailed planning including the estimated timing and amount of irrigation water. this is possible with considering the soil indices and water balance. the measured soil field capacity of some with two lab and field measurement methods were 21% and 19/8% respectively and the permanent wilting point were determined 12% as ...

Flood irrigation after crop harvest, e.g. autumn (AI), is a common practice in arid and semi-arid regions like Hetao Irrigation District (HID) Northwest China to increase soil moisture leach salt. Detailed information about the extent, timing, amount of AI imperative for modeling agro-hydrological processes management. However, little attention given identification above factors. There are basi...

In this study, we applied version 4.5 of the Community Land Model (CLM) at a 0.1258 resolution to provide the first county-scale model validation for simulating crop yields over the Conterminous United States (CONUS). Large bias was found in simulating crop yields against U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) survey data, with county-level root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 42% and 38% for simula...

Effective irrigation scheduling is a prerequisite to optimising the use of expensive irrigation water for sugarcane production in South Africa. Accurate irrigation scheduling is not widely practised in the sugar industry despite the many scheduling tools available to sugarcane growers. This leads to very low water use efficiencies (WUE) of approximately 50% of what could be achieved theoretical...

Agriculture is the largest user of water on the planet with a 70% of all freshwater withdrawals. Today the growing scarcity and competition for water among agricultural, industrial, commercial and residential sectors are pushing the water managers to allocate water more efficiently. In this scenario the use of methodologies and tools for better monitor and schedule the irrigation water for the ...

Nutrient uptake by trees is determined by root interception, soil availability, and tree demand. Fruit trees have low rooting density, especially in the case of dwarfing rootstocks. Mobility in the soil is a key factor in determining nutrient availability, and good management of nutrients requires that supply is matched to demand, in terms of amount, timing and retention in the root-zone, and t...