Alternative Irrigation

Alternative Irrigation
Author: Christopher J Barrow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1135048355

An introduction to runoff agriculture - a form of agricultural irrigation - this text describes how the use of surface and subsurface water, often overlooked and wasted, enables both small farmers and commercial agriculturists to improve yields and the security of harvest, even in harsh and remote environments. The text introduces the techniques and strategies, as well as the challenges and the potential of the crucial approach, which can contribute so much to reducing land degradation and improving conservation and sustainability.

Irrigation Engineering

Irrigation Engineering
Author: Vijay P. Singh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2022-07-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1316511227

Covering climate, soils, crops, water quality, hydrology, and hydraulics, this textbook offers a perfect overview of irrigation engineering.

Deficit Irrigation

Deficit Irrigation
Author: Samiha Ouda
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2020-01-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030355861

This book focuses on proving that deficit irrigation could play an important role in increasing food production in times of water scarcity. Although the application of deficit irrigation can involve loss in crop productivity, it still secures water to be use in cultivating more lands and producing more food. The following questions are discussed and the authors offer solutions to these problems: Will the production, on a national level, resulting from these new added areas compensate yield losses attained by application of deficit irrigation? Is it possible to use deficit irrigation practice to reduce the applied irrigation water to certain crops that have a surplus in their production, and direct this saved water to cultivate new areas with crops have low self-sufficiency ratios? Under climate change in 2030, would deficit irrigation practice have the same role it plays under the current conditions? This book will appeal to students and researchers involved with water scarcity and food security.