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Accelerating Agricultural Growth—Is Irrigation Institutional Reform Necessary? [PDF]
The right to the flow of income from water is vigorously pursued, protected, and fought over in any arid part of the world. Pakistan is of course no exception. Reform of irrigation institutions necessarily changes the rights to water, whether it be those
John W. Mellor
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Expansion Potential for Irrigation within the Mississippi Delta Region [PDF]
, 1983 17.6 million acres, or 73 percent, of the Mississippi Delta Region is currently cropland and possesses the physical characteristics of slope, texture and soil type which are recommended for irrigation.
Erstine, Jon Mark +4 more
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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Fuzzy control system for variable rate irrigation using remote sensing
Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 Abstract Variable rate irrigation (VRI) is the capacity to spatially vary the depth of water application in a field to handle different types of soils, crops, and other conditions. Precise management zones must be developed to efficiently apply variable rate technologies. However, there is no universal method to determine management zones.
Willians Ribeiro Mendes +3 more
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Cooperation in effective action [PDF]
, 2006 The ability to cooperate in collective action problems — such as those relating to the use of common property resources or the provision of local public goods — is a key determinant of economic performance.
Bandiera, O., Barankay, I., Rasul, I.
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Soybean yield response to managed depletion irrigation regimes in a Mid-South silt loam soil
Agricultural Water ManagementSoybean irrigation experiments were conducted for five years (2013–2017) on silt loam soil in Jackson, TN, a sub-humid region with high and variable precipitation.
Shuhua Xie +5 more
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2015 ASABE / IA Irrigation Symposium: Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Irrigation - A Tribute to the Career of Terry Howell, Sr. Conference Proceedings, 2015 Abstract. Much of the previous research quantifying the potential benefits of variable rate irrigation (VRI) consists of case studies with simulations using data from small numbers of intensely sampled fields. In this study, an indicator of the amount of root zone available water capacity that is unutilized by uniform rate irrigation was calculated for
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Assessing Application Uniformity of a Variable Rate Irrigation System in a Windy Location
Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 2013 Peer ...
O'Shaughnessy, Susan A. +4 more
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Ecohydrological Modeling in Agroecosystems: Examples and Challenges [PDF]
, 2015 Human societies are increasingly altering the water and biogeochemical cycles to both improve ecosystem productivity and reduce risks associated with the unpredictable variability of climatic drivers.
Feng, X. +5 more
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