Surface Irrigation Articles & Analysis: Older
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Field Irrigation Systems are essential in agriculture since they help provide water to plants where rain may be erratic or unavailable. Given the ever-rising population around the globe, food production is on the rise, and thus, there is a need to maximize agricultural production. Therefore, contemporary field irrigation systems have developed as an all-important tool to facilitate crop growth, ...
The irrigation process in agriculture, landscaping, and water management is crucial in its work with climate change-altered efficiency and sustainability. When the global temperature increases, so does the irregular supply of water, which directly affects irrigation systems across different parts of the globe. We pick from here and discuss further how climate change impacts irrigation and the ...
Placing water beneath the soil surface via buried lines is slowly becoming the "preferred choice" of many vineyard irrigators. ...
Participants must have a flow meter that we know is accurate. Arkansas is a mainly surface-irrigated state, so we use portable propeller meters manufactured by McCrometer in Hemet, California. ...
This is why employing the right choice from the different irrigation systems available is crucial for agricultural success. Irrigation systems are basically an artificial way to provide water to fertile soil for agricultural purposes. Crop irrigation is necessary to overcome such challenges as rain shortage and drought, and to keep up with the ...
In order to stabilize the industrial agriculture in Chile and to be competitive with countries like Mexico and Argentina it is necessary to improve profitability by means of mechanized harvesting methods and introduction of phytosanitary and nutritional programs. Increasing irrigation efficiency is one of the most important task on the way to higher profitability in crop ...
This paper explores the dynamic interface of state-water users' relationships in large-scale surface irrigation in India and China, to inquire to what extent the issues encountered in large-scale irrigation management and governance are independent of regime characteristics. ...
Recycled water (RW) is one of the most available water resources with great potential for use in farm irrigation. This experiment was carried out to investigate the use of RW as the irrigation source and its application method, subsurface leaky irrigation (SLI) system or surface irrigation, in an orchard with ...
Flood, Drip, Flood On most irrigated farm fields around the world, water arrives by some form of surface irrigation, usually by flooding water into open ditches fed by a river or pumped from the ground. ...
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Irrigation is a significant human activity that affects surface water fluxes in the Tarim River Basin. To quantitatively assess the irrigation impact of this activity on surface water fluxes in the Tarim River, a land surface hydrologic model was coupled with a modified irrigation scheme and ...
Particularly in dry regions, the scarcity of high-quality fresh water has heightened the importance of urban runoff water re-use, leading as well to the improvement of water use efficiency through the surface drip irrigation method. Given the limited research on wetting front migration under a surface drip irrigation emitter, ...
The study aimed to compare the bacteriological quality of an urban and rural irrigation water source. Bacterial counts, characterization, identification and diversity of aerobic bacteria were determined. ...
After the soil properties were analyzed and evaluated, suitability maps were generated for surface, sprinkler and drip irrigation methods using a geographic information system (GIS). The results demonstrated that by applying sprinkler irrigation instead of surface and drip irrigation methods, the land suitability ...
Irrigation techniques and technology based on principle of regular accumulation of moisture in active layer (surface irrigation, regular sprinkler irrigation) are most common in science and in practice. ...
Irrigated area in the Mid-South USA continues to increase and now totals four million ha. Because of low available water holding capacities and shallow root-limiting layers in many soils, irrigation management is difficult. Water quality and water use efficiency impacts under irrigation are poorly understood, but comprehension is necessary if ...
This paper explores the effects of streamflow uncertainty and the type of stochastic order, which is used for comparing stochastic variables, on optimal design of a reservoir multi-crop irrigation district system. Four nonlinear mathematical programs with an economic objective function including deterministic, stochastic-EXP with expected value order, stochastic-SD with stochastic dominance ...
Light and frequent (LF) and deep and infrequent (DI) irrigation are two common practices for golf course managers. Few studies have compared the effects of these two opposing irrigation practices on summer root performance in creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.). ...
Since it takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain, it is not surprising that 70 percent of world water use is devoted to irrigation. Thus, raising irrigation efficiency is central to raising water productivity overall.In surface water projects—that is, dams that deliver water to farmers through a network of canals—crop usage of ...
Abstraction of surface water for irrigation poses a serious threat to the sustainability of floodplain fisheries in Bangladesh. ...