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Water Management at MAICh Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh) |
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Introduction: Review
of historical evolution of irrigation and drainage, Water resources in
the world and water agricultural uses, Water-stressed countries and
agriculture, Constraints in agricultural water planning, distribution and
management, Examples of non-sustainable water management. Water balance of agricultural lands: Scales of
study, Basics of soil water balance, Basics of crop evapotranspiration,
Control of water balance in the root zone, irrigation and drainage. Agricultural
Water Use Efficience: The WUE concept, How to increase WUE?
Examples of WUE for some crops and irrigation strategies. Estimation of crop
water requirements: Review of existing methods, The Penman-Monteith
formula, Concept of crop coefficient Applications. Exercises).
Sustainable on-farm irrigation: Irrigation efficiencies, Irrigation
scheduling, Irrigation methods, Basics of localized irrigation,
Examples of irrigation strategies for saving water. Applications.
Exercises. Sustainable drainage: Principles of agricultural
drainage, Objectives and methods, Some examples of drainage
systems. Deadline for
project submission has been postponed to 9/06/2008 e-mail: manfreda@unibas.it |
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