For several decades, many countries have favored irrigation as a means of regulating, diversifying, and increasing agricultural production to meet the growing domestic demand for food, even generate exportable surpluses. As with most Mediterranean countries, Tunisia has inherited long tradition in irrigation; thus, management scarcity water resources poses very important challenge that is gradu...

From the last 5-8 years in academia, industries and irrigationsector, green supply chain management (GSCM) has took up significant consideration and being used for optimization of resourses. Nowadays consumers are attractive toward further ecological surrounding and administrations are creating severer ecological protocols, and farmers are opting to decrease the ecological affect being caused b...

Interest in the sustainability of farming practices has increased in response to environmental problems associated with conventional agricultural management often adopted for the production of herbaceous crops, ornamentals, and fruit crops. Availability of measures of the status of the soil ecosystem is of immediate importance, particularly for environmental assessment and monitoring programs. ...

Irrigation procedures are based on farmer’s experience, soil properties and environmental conditions that are affected by changes in environmental conditions. Wireless sensor network is a solution for monitoring environmental conditions and efficient utilization of water. In this paper, an effective irrigation management system is presented for the container grown crops. It utilizes wireless se...

The management problem of water reservoirs can be formulated as a stochastic optimal control (SOC) problem, where the objective function is an aggregated cost that accounts for the interests acting in the water system (e.g. hydropower production, irrigation supply, etc.) and the design variable is the reservoirs release policy. Solving the SOC problem through stochastic dynamic programming is o...

introduction water consumption improvement in agriculture is very important compare with other sections. because of existing complexity in production and exploitation processes and optimized application of irrigation water and nitrogen especially in dry and semi-dry areas facing with water constraint is an important goal in this field. yield gap analysis can help to identify how much yield incr...

Maintaining a good irrigation system is a necessity in today’s water scarcity environment. This paper describes a new approach for automated Smart Irrigation (SIR) system in agricultural management. Using various types of sensors in the crop field area, temperature and moisture value of the soil is monitored. Based on the sensed data, SIR will automatically decide about the necessary action for...

The interactive influence of furrow surface seal formation and surge irrigation (intermittent flow) on furrow infiltration into a Portneuf silt loam soil was measured with a recirculating infiltrometer. When the formation of a surface seal was prevented by a layer of cheesecloth laid on the furrow perimeter, flow interruption increased furrow bed bulk density by 100 kg/m 3 and decreased infiltr...

crucial for the survival of agriculture in northeastern Colorado. Improper N and irrigation management are major factors contribThe relationships of corn yield and nitrate leaching uting to water quality and shortage problems in the Great Plains. with irrigation, N fertilization, and plant population This study was conducted on the Irrigation Research Farm in Yuma, have been extensively investi...

The present study deals with the application of Genetic Algorithms (GA) for irrigation planning. The GA technique is used to evolve efficient cropping pattern for maximizing benefits for an irrigation project in India. Constraints include continuity equation, land and water requirements, crop diversification and restrictions on storage. Penalty function approach is used to convert constrained p...