Exploring Barriers to the Adoption of Internet of Things-Based Precision Agriculture Practices
Agriculture, 2023 The production of row crops in the Midwestern (Indiana) region of the US has been facing environmental and economic sustainability issues. There has been an increase in trend for the application of fertilizers (nitrogen & phosphorus), farm machinery fuel
Gaganpreet Singh Hundal +4 more
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Improved efficiency of nutrient and water use for high quality field vegetable production using fertigation [PDF]
, 2010 Drip-based fertigation may improve the application efficiency of water and nutrients while maintaining or improving marketable yield and quality at harvest and post-harvest.
Hilton, Howard W. +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2019 The surface energy balance algorithm for land (SEBAL) has been demonstrated to provide accurate estimates of crop evapotranspiration (ET) and yield at different spatial scales even under highly heterogeneous conditions.
Stefano Gobbo +5 more
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THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE ADOPTION OF SPRINKLER IRRIGATION TECHNIQUE FOR UNDERGROUND IRRIGATED WHEAT IN THE FIRST AND THE SECOND AGRICULTURAL STABILITY ZONE IN TWO PROVINCES OF ALEPPO AND IDLEB [PDF]
Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2012 The research aims at studying the indicators of Adoption (Rate of Adoption and Degree of Adoption) of sprinkler irrigation technique of farmers growing wheat depend on underground water for irrigation (wells) and studying some of the economical and ...
Kenan K. Deen +3 more
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Emitter discharge variability of subsurface drip irrigation in uniform soils: effect on water-application uniformity [PDF]
, 2008 Emitter discharge of subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) decreases as a result of the overpressure in the soil water at the discharge orifice. In this paper, the variation in dripper discharge in SDI laterals is studied.
Gil Rodríguez, María +4 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 +4 more
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Effects of supplementary irrigation and application of mycorrhiza and azetobacter on grain filling components of rain fed barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) [PDF]
فیزیولوژی محیطی گیاهی, 2021 In order to study the effects of supplementary irrigation and application of mycorrhiza and azetobacter on grain filling components, chlorophyll content, and grain yield of rain fed barley (Var.
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Putting two water transport models to the test under wet and dry conditions [PDF]
, 2013 In order to improve fruit quality and quantity, accurate monitoring of the water status is necessary. The water status can be continuously predicted by using a mechanistic water transport and storage model (e.g. Steppe et al., 2006; 2008).
Baert, Annelies, Steppe, Kathy
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Horticulturae, 2019 Due to restrictions and limitations on agricultural water worldwide, one of the most effective ways to conserve water in this sector is to reduce the water losses and improve irrigation uniformity.
Aymen A. Al Al-Baaj, Andrew Lewis
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Why farmers sometimes love risks: evidence from India [PDF]
, 2014 Using a unique data set collected among farmers in India’s semiarid tropics, we document the surprising prevalence of risk-taking behavior in the face of realistically framed high-stakes gambles.
Chari, A V +2 more
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