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Irrigated Agriculture in Egypt

Author : Masayoshi Satoh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319302167
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Irrigated Agriculture in Egypt written by Masayoshi Satoh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book targets the issue of water scarcity in Egypt as a typical example of the world water crisis. Today, the available water resource is facing its limit because of rapid increase in water demand as a result of population growth and changes in peoples’ life-style. The basic idea to solve the problem of water scarcity is that the irrigation sector, the biggest user of water, should increase water use efficiency. However, the real problem is how this can be achieved in view of the crucial need for water in this sector. This book addresses this challenge through case studies from the Nile delta in Egypt. The water problem in the Nile delta, the major source for water in Egypt, is discussed in this book from all its various aspects. This book covers the situation before and after the advent of the Aswan High Dam, so that the reader understands the entire development. Another special feature are the extensive and scientific descriptions of contemporary topics in water and agriculture, especially from the viewpoint of water saving and sustainability. These descriptions are based on field experiments and surveys in a six-year international research project. Topics of this book are local, but their implications are global.

Drip Irrigation for Agriculture

Author : Jean-Philippe Venot
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113498975X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Drip Irrigation for Agriculture written by Jean-Philippe Venot and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in emerging and developing countries. This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders but also some disappointments and disillusion faced in the global South. It explores and explains under which conditions it works, for whom and with what effects. The book deals with drip irrigation 'behind the scenes', showcasing what largely remain 'untold stories'. Most research on drip irrigation use plot-level studies to demonstrate the technology’s ability to save water or improve efficiencies and use a narrow and rather prescriptive engineering or economic language. They tend to be grounded in a firm belief in the technology and focus on the identification of ways to improve or better realize its potential. The technology also figures prominently in poverty alleviation or agricultural modernization narratives, figuring as a tool to help smallholders become more innovative, entrepreneurial and business minded. Instead of focusing on its potential, this book looks at drip irrigation-in-use, making sense of what it does from the perspectives of the farmers who use it, and of the development workers and agencies, policymakers, private companies, local craftsmen, engineers, extension agents or researchers who engage with it for a diversity of reasons and to realize a multiplicity of objectives. While anchored in a sound engineering understanding of the design and operating principles of the technology, the book extends the analysis beyond engineering and hydraulics to understand drip irrigation as a sociotechnical phenomenon that not only changes the way water is supplied to crops but also transforms agricultural farming systems and even how society is organized. The book provides field evidence from a diversity of interdisciplinary case studies in sub-Saharan Africa, the Mediterranean, Latin America, and South Asia, thus revealing some of the untold stories of drip irrigation.

Agricultural Irrigation

Author : Aliasghar Montazar
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039219227
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Irrigation written by Aliasghar Montazar and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture is certainly the most important food supplier while it globally accounts for more than 70% of water used and contributes significantly to water pollution. Irrigated agriculture is facing rising competition worldwide for access to reliable, low cost, and high-quality water resources. However, irrigation as the major tool and determinant of affecting agricultural productivity and environmental resources plays a critical role in food security and environment sustainability. Innovative irrigation technologies and practices may enhance agricultural water efficiency and production, in the meantime decrease the water demand and quality issues. I am very pleased to invite you to submit manuscripts in agricultural irrigation which assess current challenges and offer improvement approaches and opportunities for future irrigation.

Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture

Author : L.S. Pereira
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401587000
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture written by L.S. Pereira and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigated agriculture and the use of water resources in agriculture face the challenges of sustainable development. Research has advanced our knowledge of water use by crops, soil-water-solutes interactions, and the engineering and managerial tools needed to mobilize, convey, distribute, control and apply water for agricultural production. However, the achievements booked in user practice have revealed the need for new developments in the areas of resource conservation, control of environmental and health impacts, modernisation of technologies and management, economic viability and the social acceptance of changes. The contributions to Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture cover most of the relevant disciplines. Besides its multidisciplinarity, the different origins, experience, backgrounds and practices of the authors provide a wide, in-depth analysis of the various aspects of water resource utilization in agriculture. The papers review scientific, technical and managerial aspects, highlighting the main problems, issues and future developments. The book covers the different aspects of sustainability, including environmental, technical, economic, institutional and social ones. Advances in irrigation science and engineering are dealt with, both on- and off-farm. Special attention is paid to the different components of water quality management, to the transfer of technology, and to capacity building.

Irrigated Eden

Author : Mark Fiege
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989742
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Irrigated Eden written by Mark Fiege and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho’s Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivation. But at each step, nature rebounded and compromised the intended agricultural order. The result was a new and richly textured landscape made of layer upon layer of technology and intractable natural forces—one that engineers and farmers did not control with the precision they had anticipated. Irrigated Eden vividly portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology. Winner of the Idaho Library Association Book Award, 1999 Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, 1999-2000

Characteristics of Irrigated Agriculture in the United States

Author : John J. Hanchar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Characteristics of Irrigated Agriculture in the United States written by John J. Hanchar and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modeling Economic Management and Policy Issues of Water in Irrigated Agriculture

Author : Ariel Dinar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313368163
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Modeling Economic Management and Policy Issues of Water in Irrigated Agriculture by : Ariel Dinar

Download or read book Modeling Economic Management and Policy Issues of Water in Irrigated Agriculture written by Ariel Dinar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-08-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents models that characterize the relationships between quantity and quality of irrigation water application, and agricultural production and the environment. A comprehensive modeling approach addressing both the benefits of irrigation and the potential negative effects is introduced. Physical-biological concepts are combined with economic and engineering principles to demonstrate the usefulness of the model for analyzing various water management and policy issues. Decision makers on all levels should find the modeling approach interesting and useful in the management issues from the farm to national levels.

Irrigation Institutions

Author : Elwood Mead
Publisher : Arno Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irrigation Institutions written by Elwood Mead and published by Arno Press. This book was released on 1903 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irrigated Agriculture

Author : California Environmental Protection Agency. Irrigated Agriculture Technical Advisory Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Irrigated Agriculture written by California Environmental Protection Agency. Irrigated Agriculture Technical Advisory Committee and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture

Author : Christopher Scott
Publisher : Cabi
ISBN 13 : 9781845934514
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture written by Christopher Scott and published by Cabi. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of urban wastewater in agriculture is receiving renewed attention, with the increasing scarcity of fresh water resources in many arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Wastewater is a low-cost alternative to conventional irrigation water, although it may carry health and environmental risks. This book critically reviews experience worldwide of these issues. Emphasis is placed on untreated wastewater use by means of field-based case studies from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. It brings together a range of perspectives including economic, health, agronomic, environmental, institutional, and policy dimensions.

Structure and Performance of Western Irrigated Agriculture

Author : Charles V. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Structure and Performance of Western Irrigated Agriculture written by Charles V. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irrigation Agriculture in the West

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Irrigation Agriculture in the West written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication has been prepared in the interest of a permanent irrigation agriculture. Irrigation has played an important role in the remarkable achievement by farmers in this nation in meeting wartime and postwar production goals. It may play an even greater part in our future agricultural production. The food needs of a growing population and the establishment of desirable trade relations with other nations will require the maintenance of efficient, high-level agricultural production.

Structure and Performance of Western Irrigated Agriculture

Author : Charles V. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structure and Performance of Western Irrigated Agriculture written by Charles V. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Water Charging in Irrigated Agriculture

Author : Gez Cornish
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251052112
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Water Charging in Irrigated Agriculture by : Gez Cornish

Download or read book Water Charging in Irrigated Agriculture written by Gez Cornish and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents an analysis of experience in irrigation water charging, drawn from published literature and a series of six case studies. These sources provide a broad spectrum of experience from less-developed to more-developed countries. The aim has been to make an assessment of the claims concerning irrigation water charging as a tool for cost recovery (achieving financial sustainability) and demand management (achieving resource sustainability).

A New Era for Irrigation

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309053315
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A New Era for Irrigation written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-11-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigated agriculture has played a critical role in the economic and social development of the United Statesâ€"but it is also at the root of increasing controversy. How can irrigation best make the transition into an era of increasing water scarcity? In A New Era for Irrigation, experts draw important conclusions about whether irrigation can continue to be the nation's most significant water user, what role the federal government should play, and what the irrigation industry must do to adapt to the conditions of the future. A New Era for Irrigation provides data, examples, and insightful commentary on issues such as: Growing competition for water resources. Developments in technology and science. The role of federal subsidies for crops and water. Uncertainties related to American Indian water rights issues. Concern about environmental problems. And more. The committee identifies broad forces of change and reports on how public and private institutions, scientists and technology experts, and individual irrigators have responded. The report includes detailed case studies from the Great Plains, the Pacific Northwest, California, and Florida, in both the agricultural and turfgrass sectors. The cultural transformation brought about by irrigation may be as profound as the transformation of the landscape. The committee examines major facets of this cultural perspective and explores its place in the future. A New Era for Irrigation explains how irrigation emerged in the nineteenth century, how it met the nation's goals in the twentieth century, and what role it might play in the twenty-first century. It will be important to growers, policymakers, regulators, environmentalists, water and soil scientists, water rights claimants, and interested individuals.

Technological Interventions in Management of Irrigated Agriculture

Author : Megh R. Goyal
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351790617
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Technological Interventions in Management of Irrigated Agriculture written by Megh R. Goyal and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a roster of international contributors, this volume offers an abundance of solutions to address agricultural water management challenges in today’s water-scarce areas of the world. The authors present studies on farmer-friendly irrigation scheduling methods, model-based analysis of crop water requirements, ways to optimize surface irrigation systems, and hydraulic design and management of surface water systems. The book goes on to highlight ways to improve soil properties by taking into account spatial, temporal, and spectral variability in soil properties. The volume also covers various innovative research studies on soil and water productivity of vegetable cultivation under water-stressed areas, application of coir geotextiles, and the role of biofertilizers in controlling soil degradation and maintaining fertile topsoil. Crop management strategies to enhance the efficient use of marginal and saline lands for nonconventional crops are also discussed. The book is divided into four sections, covering: engineering interventions in irrigation management technological interventions in management of soil properties technological inventions for soil and water conservation crop management for non-conventional use This volume will serve as an invaluable resource for academicians, researchers, engineers, agronomists, extension officers, students, and farmers in the broad discipline of agricultural and biological engineering.

Irrigated Agriculture in the United States

Author : John J. Hanchar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Irrigated Agriculture in the United States written by John J. Hanchar and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: