EAN: 9783319217703

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ...

This book includes multi-disciplinary quantifications of the effect of climate change on water
requirements of wheat  maize  rice and sugarcane. Furthermore  it provides on-farm management
that faces water scarcity under current situation and under climate change. Changing
cultivation method (raised beds instead of furrows or basins) or increasing irrigation
application efficiency (sprinkler or drip systems instead of surface irrigation) can reduce the
applied water. Irrigated agriculture  although profitable  it endures wasteful use of valuable
water resources. Taking into account the risk of climate change  developing countries like
Egypt will highly suffer. Furthermore  the effect of intercropping (two crops use the applied
water to one of them)  and or using crop rotations (arrange crops to reduce the applied water 
increase water productivity and sustain soil fertility) on production and consumed irrigation
water by crops were comprehensively analyzed.

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