Management Strategies for Water Use Efficiency and Micro Irrigated Crops: Principles, Practices, and Performance

ISBN-13: 9781774634677 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 354 str.

Megh R. Goyal; B. J. Pandian

Opis

This valuable book, published in conjunction with Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, is a must for those struggling to find ways to address the need to maintain 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 metho

Spis treści

Part 1: Micro Irrigation: Principles And Challenging Technologies  1. Wireless Automation of Drip Irrigation System Using Cloud Computing  2. Fertilizer Recommendations for Drip-Irrigated Cotton under Inductive Cum Targeted Yield Model  3. Supplementary Irrigation Using Rain-Gun Sprinklers for Increasing Productivity in Drylands  4. Impact of Irrigation Methods on Soil, Water, and Nutrient Use Efficiency of Integrated Cropping: Livestock Production Systems  5. Estimation of Resource Use Pattern of Crops Cultivated Across Different Farm Sizes  Part 2: Water Use Efficiency For Drip-Irrigated Crops  6. Water Use Efficiency of Fodder (Desmanthus virgatus) under Check Basin, Furrow, and Rain-Gun Irrigation Methods  7. Water Productivity of Micro Irrigated Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)  8. Water Use Efficiency of Pearl Millet and Napier Hybrid Grass under Irrigation Regimes and Nitrogen Fertigation  Part 3: Performance Of Fertigated Rice Under Micro Irrigation  9. Status of Drip Irrigation Research in Rice: A Review  10. Performance of Fertigated Aerobic Rice under Drip Irrigation  Part 4: Drip Fertigated Sugarcane: Management Strategies And Economics  11. Performance of Castor + Onion Intercropping System under Drip Fertigation  12. Performance of Intercrops under a Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative  13. Water-Soluble Fertilizers for Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative under a Subsurface Drip  Fertigation System  14. Performance, Water Productivity, and Economics of Sugarcane Production in Different Agro-Climatic Zones of Tamil Nadu  15. Economic Returns of Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative Technology in Sugarcane Cultivation  Part 5: Performance Of Drip-Irrigated Crops  16. Automated and Non-Automated Fertigation Systems for Cucumber inside a Poly House  17. Performance of Drip-Irrigated Cauliflower using a Poly Lactic Acid Roll Planter  18. Performance of Drip-Fertigated Banana under Polyethylene Mulching  19. Performance of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) under Drip Fertigation  20. Performance of Drip-Fertigated Tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa L.) under PE Mulching

O autorze

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 Rico–Mayaguez 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.