Ebook: Sustainable practices in surface and subsurface micro irrigation
Author: Megh R. Goyal
- Tags: Microirrigation, Microirrigation, Management, Sustainable agriculture, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Agriculture, General
- Series: Research Advances in Sustainable Micro Irrigation Volume 2
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Apple Academic Press : CRC Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This new book, Sustainable Practices in Surface and Subsurface Micro Irrigation, offers a vast amount of knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system. The information covered has worldwide applicability to irrigation management in agriculture.
Focusing on both subsurface and surface micro irrigation, chapters in the book cover a variety of new research and information on:
• Irrigation water requirements for tanier, vegetables, bananas, plantains, beans, and papaya
• Irrigating different types of soils, including sandy soils, wet soils, and mollisols
• New applications for micro irrigation using existing technology, such as meteorological instruments and MicroCAD
• Meteorological instruments for water management