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Improving Citrus Nitrogen Uptake Efficiency: Effective Irrigation Scheduling

EDIS, 2007
SL-247, a 13-page illustrated document by K. T. Morgan and E. A. Hanlon, addresses citrus irrigation scheduling and its relationship to both nutrition and fertilizer management. Includes additional resources.
Kelly T. Morgan, Edward A. Hanlon
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Water harvesting and supplemental irrigation for improved water use efficiency in dry areas [PDF]

Productivity / Water harvesting / Runoff / Water storage / Crop production / Water use efficiency / Arid lands / Water resources development / Rain-fed farming / Supplementary irrigation / Irrigation scheduling / Environmental effects / Research ...
Hachum, A., Kijne, J., Oweis, T.
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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligent fertigation improves tomato yield and quality and water and nutrient use efficiency in solar greenhouse production

Agricultural Water Management
Intelligent fertigation is a sustainable solution for optimising water and fertiliser input, thus minimising environmental pollution in vegetable cultivation facilities and reducing labour costs in agricultural practices.
Qunyan Wang, Yifan Jia, Zhongjun Pang, Jianbin Zhou, Kevin Emmanuel Scriber, II, Bin Liang, Zhujun Chen   +6 more
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Remote sensing and hydrologic models for performance assessment in Sirsa Irrigation Circle, India [PDF]

Irrigation management / Irrigation systems / Irrigation canals / Performance evaluation / Remote sensing / GIS / Models / Irrigated farming / Hydrology / Satellite surveys / Irrigation scheduling / Evapotranspiration ...
Bastiaanssen, W. G. M., Jayasinghe, G., Molden, D. J., Mutuwatte, L., Smit, A. A. M. F. R., Thiruvengadachari, S.   +5 more
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VARIwise: a general-purpose adaptive control simulation framework for spatially and temporally varied irrigation at sub-field scale [PDF]

, 2009
Irrigation control strategies may be used to improve the site-specific irrigation of cotton via lateral move and centre pivot irrigation machines. A simulation framework ‘VARIwise’ has been created to aid the development, evaluation and management of ...
Grip, H°avard Fjær, Saberi, Ali, Stoorvogel, Antonie Arij, Wang, Xu, Yang, Tao   +4 more
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
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Evaluation of different soil water potential by field capacity threshold in combination with a triggered irrigation module

Soil and Water Research, 2015
Irrigation efficiency improvement requires optimization of its parameters like irrigation scheduling, threshold and amount of water usage. If these parameters are not satisfactorily optimized, negative consequences for the plant-soil system can occur ...
Monika MARKOVIĆ, Vilim FILIPOVIĆ, Tarzan LEGOVIĆ, Marko JOSIPOVIĆ, Vjekoslav TADIĆ   +4 more
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IRRIGATION PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS WITH WATER-CAPITAL SUBSTITUTION [PDF]

The dynamics of biomass growth implies that the yield of irrigated crops depends, in addition to the total amount of water applied, on irrigation scheduling during the growing period. Advanced irrigation technologies relax constraints on irrigation rates
Shani, Uri, Tsur, Yacov, Zemel, Amos, Zilberman, David   +3 more
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Identifying Advantages and Disadvantages of Variable Rate Irrigation – An Updated Review [PDF]

, 2019
Variable rate irrigation (VRI) sprinklers on mechanical move irrigation systems (center pivot or lateral move) have been commercially available since 2004.
Andrade, Manuel A., Colaizzi, Paul D., Evett, Steve R., Heeren, Derek M., Lamm, Freddie R., LaRue, Jacob L., Marek, Thomas H., O’Shaughnessy, S. A.   +7 more
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