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Eco‐Efficient in Mediterranean Olive Grove Systems: Insights From a Life Cycle Cost Analysis in Southern Portugal

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study assesses and compares the eco‐efficiency of six olive production systems in the Alentejo region, southern Portugal, employing a life cycle costing (LCC) approach directly integrated with a prior life cycle assessment (LCA). Although LCC has been increasingly applied to Mediterranean olive‐growing, empirical research in Portugal ...
Rachel Hermeto de Pádua Souza, Rui Fragoso, Carlos Marques, Anna Irene De Luca   +3 more
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Rosemary growth and nutrient balance: Leachate fertigation with leachates versus conventional fertigation [PDF]

, 2018
The free discharge of drainage water from greenhouse horticultural production to the environment is a current environmental concern due to its capacity to contribute to environmental pollution. This has led to the search of sustainable alternatives for
Urrestarazu Gavilán, Miguel, García Caparrós, Pedro, Llanderal Quiroz, Alfonso, Maksimovic, Ivana, Lao Arenas, María Teresa, Rodríguez, Juan Carlos   +5 more
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Adapting to Water Scarcity in Mediterranean Greenhouse Agriculture: Insights From Digital Irrigation and Regulated Water Governance in Southeastern Spain

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate‐driven water scarcity is compounding adaptation pressures on Mediterranean greenhouse farming, particularly for small and micro agricultural firms governed by regulated water‐governance systems. This paper analyses differentiated adaptation profiles in Almería (Spain) based on an analysis of farm structure, digital irrigation adoption,
Luis J. Belmonte‐Ureña, Francisco Camacho‐Ferre, Francisco José Castillo‐Díaz   +2 more
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Towards Water, Food and Energy Security: The Global Challenges and Possible Solutions for a Holistic Vision of Sustainability

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This invited paper gives an overview of the challenges the world is facing and offers a possible solution for water and food security within the holistic integrated concept of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. The paper summarizes the experience the author gained through working on various research projects at national and international ...
Ragab Ragab
wiley   +1 more source

Response of indigenous low cost smart fertigation system on growth, physiology, root characters and yield of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Precise application of nutrients and water in groundnut ensures optimal plant growth, enhances yield and quality and minimizes resource wastage. It promotes sustainable farming by improving nutrient use efficiency and saving water. Field experiments were
Chellamani Aathithyan, Arumugam Gurusamy, Elangovan Subramanian, G. Ganapathyswamy Hemalatha, Karunanandham Kumutha, Basir Ahmed Bhakiyathu Saliha, Sethuramalingam Kamalesh   +6 more
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Integrated water and nutrient management in Sathgudi sweet orange (Citrus sinensis)

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2019
The combined effect of drip irrigation with fertigation on plant growth, yield and quality of 10 year-old bearing sweet orange (Citrus sinensis cv. Sathgudi) was studied during 2013–17 at Dr YSR Horticultural University, AICRP on Fruits, CRS, Tirupati.
L MUKUNDA LAKASHMI, K T VENKATARAMANA, P S SHIRGURE, A K SRIVASTAVA, PRAKASH PATIL   +4 more
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Drought Risk in Mango and Avocado Orchards: Insights Into Plant Water Relations and Irrigation‐Related Agronomic Solutions

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is making water availability more uncertain, with growing consequences for the productivity and long‐term sustainability of tropical and subtropical fruit orchards. Mangifera indica L. and Persea americana Mill. both require large amounts of water to sustain growth and productivity.
Eleonora Cataldo
wiley   +1 more source

Variable Rate Irrigation: A Long‐Term Simulated and Field Data Analyses of Irrigation Practices, Field Variability, Economic Feasibility and Profitability

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Long‐term economic analyses of variable rate irrigation (VRI) strategies were performed compared with uniform irrigation management (UIM) in a reference production field using the AquaCrop model. Five strategies to trigger irrigation were as follows: (Field Capacity‐VRI, Driest Soil Trigger‐VRI, Water Mining‐VRI, Conventional Uniform ...
Sahil Sharma, Suat Irmak, William Kranz
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Fertigation Applied to Furrow and Overhead Irrigated Cotton Grown in a Black Vertosol in Southern Queensland, Australia

, 2018
.Field trials were conducted at gated pipe surface and overhead irrigation sites established to cotton ( L.) to evaluate irrigation and fertigation management using a model-based control system.
Antille, D. L., Diogenes L. Antille
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Urease and nitrification inhibitors with drip fertigation strategies to mitigate global warming potential and improve water-nitrogen efficiency of maize under semi-arid regions

Agricultural Water Management
The limited availability of water resources and the significant loss of nitrogen oxides are severe constraints on agricultural development in dry-land agricultural systems of China.
Yang Sunling, Ali Shahzad, Meng Wang, Yueling Xi, Mohammed Rafi Shaik, Mujeeb Khan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source