Enhancement of border irrigation systems: Leveraging simulation–optimization techniques
Agricultural Water ManagementSurface irrigation systems, while widespread due to their low operational costs, often suffer from significant inefficiencies driven by inappropriate design and management practices.
Mahmood Akbari, Saeed Farahani
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Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2015 The irrigation method used in winter wheat fields affects micro-environment factors, such as relative humidity (RH) within canopy, soil temperature, topsoil bulk density, soil matric potential, and soil nutrients, and these changes may affect plant root ...
Guo-hua LÜ +5 more
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Formulated and unformulated carbonates to control apple scab (Venturia inaequalis) on organic apple [PDF]
, 2008 In the EC at the moment only copper- and sulphur-based products are allowed to control a variety of diseases on different crops. However, it is well-known that these products also have negative side effects on beneficial organisms and the soil.
Claudio, Casera +2 more
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CHINA'S AGRICULTURAL WATER SCARCITY : EFFECTS ON INTERNATIONAL MARKETS [PDF]
Water shortages in important grain-producing regions of China may significantly affect China's agricultural production potential and international markets. This paper provides an overview of how water scarcity could affect China's agricultural production
Hansen, James M., Lohmar, Bryan
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Numerical simulations of the impacts of mountain on oasis effects in arid Central Asia [PDF]
, 2017 The oases in the mountain-basin systems of Central Asia are extremely fragile. Investigating oasis effects and oasis-desert interactions is important for understanding the ecological stability of oases.
De Maeyer, Philippe +6 more
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Water rituals on the Bravo/Grande River: a transnational political and ecological inheritance
Journal of Political Ecology, 2012 The Mexico-US border region is home to a particular hydraulic tradition with important social, cultural and environmental dimensions. This article discusses the ways that European, indigenous and mestizo colonists from central Mexico reshaped the ...
Tomas Martinez Saldaña
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Public sector pricing policies : a review of Bank policy and practice [PDF]
Nearly a decade has passed since the Bank codified its position on cost recovery policies (OMS 2.25) for public sector projects. In a review of 13 sectors, the authors find that the Bank guidelines are followed fairly closely in seven sectors: coal ...
Alicbusan, Adelaida P., Julius, DeAnne
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Making Bank irrigation investments more sustainable [PDF]
This paper is about sustainability of irrigation investments in both the financial and physical senses. Finance provides the claim on resources necessary to accomplish physical operations in an economic system, while physical operations provide a flow of
O'Mara, Gerald T.
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Determining the Coefficients of Philip\'s Equation and the Optimal Roughness Coefficient Using the Simulation of the Advancing Phase in Border Irrigation with the Dynamic Wave Model [PDF]
علوم آب و خاکSurface irrigation is one of the most common irrigation methods. Due to the low efficiency of surface irrigation, water loss is significant in this system.
H. Ebrahimi Golbosi +2 more
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Adoption of Environmental Best Practice Amongst Dairy Farmers [PDF]
The adoption of environmental management practices is addressed in this paper. The use of consumer behaviour theory and a market research approach is discussed by describing how it was used in the study.
Bewsell, Denise, Kaine, Geoff
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