Management Strategies for Water Use Efficiency and Micro Irrigated Crops presents new research and technologies for making better use of water resources for agricultural purposes. The chapters focus on better management to improve allocation and irrigation water efficiency and look at performance factors as well. Chapters look at irrigation technology, environmental conditions, and scheduling of water application.One section of the book focuses on water management in the cultivation of sugarcane, a very important industrial crop used in many fields. Other sections are devoted to principles and challenging technologies, water use efficiency for drip-irrigated crops, performance of fertigated rice under micro irrigation, and evaluation of performance of drip-irrigated crops.This valuable book is a must for those struggling to find ways to address the need to maintain efficient crop production in the midst of water shortages. With chapters from hands-on experts in the field, the book will be an invaluable reference and guide to effective micro irrigation methods.
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| About the Senior Editor-in-Chief |
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| About the Editor |
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PART I Micro Irrigation: Principles and Challenging Technologies |
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1 Wireless Automation of a Drip Irrigation System Using Cloud Computing |
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2 Fertilizer Recommendations for Drip Irrigated Cotton under an Inductive Cum Targeted Yield Model |
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3 Supplementary Irrigation Using Rain-Gun Sprinklers for Increasing Productivity in Drylands |
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4 Impact of Irrigation Methods on Soil, Water, and Nutrient Use Efficiency of Integrated Cropping: Livestock Production Systems |
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5 Estimation of Resource Use Patterns of Crops Cultivated Across Different Farm Sizes |
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PART II Water Use Efficiency for Drip Irrigated Fodder, Cassava, and Pearl Millet |
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6 Water Use Efficiency of Fodder (Desmanthus virgatus) under Check Basin, Furrow, and Rain-Gun Irrigation Methods |
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7 Water Productivity of Micro-Irrigated Cassava {Manihot esculenta Crantz) |
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8 Water Use Efficiency of Pearl Millet and Napier Hybrid Grass under Irrigation Regimes and Nitrogen Fertigation |
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PART III Performance of Fertigated Rice under Micro Irrigation |
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9 Status of Drip Irrigation Research in Rice: A Review |
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10 Performance of Fertigated Aerobic Rice under Drip Irrigation |
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PART IV Drip Fertigated Sugarcane: Management Strategies and Economics |
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11 Performance of Intercrops under a Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative |
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12 Water-Soluble Fertilizers for a Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative under Subsurface Drip Irrigation with Fertigation |
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13 Performance, Water Productivity, and Economics of Sugarcane Production in Different Agro-Climatic Zones of Tamil Nadu |
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14 Economic Returns of Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative Technology in Sugarcane Cultivation |
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PART V Performance of Drip Irrigated Crops |
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15 Performance of a Castor + Onion Intercropping System under Drip Fertigation |
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16 Automated and Non-Automated Fertigation Systems for Cucumber Inside a Polyhouse |
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17 Performance of Drip Irrigated Cauliflower using a Polylactic Acid Roll Planter |
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18 Performance of Drip Fertigated Banana under Polyethylene Mulching |
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19 Performance of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) under Drip Fertigation |
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20 Performance of Drip-Fertigated Tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa L.) under Polyethylene (PE) Mulching |
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Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, is now a Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering from the General Engineering Department at the College of Engineering at University of Puerto RicoMayaguez Campus (UPRM), and Senior Technical Editor-in-Chief for Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering for Apple Academic Press Inc.
B. J. Pandian, PhD, is presently working as Director of the Water Technology Centre, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore, India.
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