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Make the best use of available water for your crops!

Water Use in Crop Production explores innovative methods that determine how much water certain crops need, in certain climates, in order to ensure adequate plant growth and help eliminate water waste. Through this informative book, agronomists, growers, researchers, and graduate students will find methods and techniques for effective water management that will save money and conserve water. Water Use in Crop Production will enable you enhance crop quality and quantity and save one of the earth's most important resource.

Comprehensive and thorough, this essential book combines two vital needs, food and water, and examines what must be done in order to keep up with the ever-growing human population. Explaining conservation techniques used in Argentina, Australia, Israel, Morocco, New Zealand, the Philippines, Spain, and the United States, Water Use in Crop Production will help you achieve this goal as it discusses water management measures including:

• avoiding excessive deep percolation
• reducing runoff
• lessening water evaporation through methods such as reducing the capillary water flow to the surface of the soil
• determining the rates at which water is demanded and can be supplied in a specific area to create a plan for limiting water loss
• studying the root structure of plants to calculate how much water they need
• using deficit irrigation to help plants save water for future use
• evaluating citrus water use through the Penman-Monteith model

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This textbook contains the material for a course in the majorprinciples of modelling crop growth processes. There is much more tocrop growth than what is discussed in this textbook, but it provides asound basis for further work and study in this field. Chapter bychapter the book leads the reader to different modelled aspects ofcrop growth, and at the end, the reader will have a good understandingof the Wageningen simulation model SUCROS for the potential productionsituation. By then, it will be much easier to find one's way throughdescriptions and listings of other models. Throughout the text, thestudy of the different topics is facilitated by exercises that supportthe course in a hands-on computer practical exercise. A very simple crop growth model, almost entirely based on radiationinterception, is given first. This skeleton model is then expanded bysubmodels for respiration, carbon assimilation, plant development, anda more detailed model for radiation interception and reflection.Modelling of transpiration and the leaf energy balance is given by wayof introduction. There are many listings of the submodels, written in the simulationlanguage FST (FORTRAN Simulation Translator), as well as of SUCROSitself, together with plentiful comments. Some supporting theory isprovided in the form of Appendices. The book is meant for students and scientists who would like toacquire a working knowledge of the technique of crop growth modelling. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1921Original Publisher: The UniversitySubjects: Plant ecologyCrop rotationVegetation dynamicsPlant successionVegetation surveysNature / PlantsScience / Life Sciences / BotanyScience / Life Sciences / EcologyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or an index.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1916.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This book focuses on the previously neglected interface between the conservation of plant genetic resources and their utilization. Only through utilization can the potential value of conserved genetic resources be realised. However, as this book shows, much conserved germplasm has to be subjected to long-term pre-breeding and genetic enhancement before it can be used in plant breeding programmes.The authors explore the rationale and approaches for such pre-breeding efforts as the basis for broadening the genetic bases of crop production. Examples from a range of major food crops are presented and issues analysed by leading authorities from around the world. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: A Plain Book on Treatment of the Soil and Crop Production; Especially Designed for the Everyday Use of Farmers and Agricultural Students; Original Published by: The Outing publishing company in 1907 in 341 pages; Subjects: Agriculture; Business & Economics / Industries / General; Business & Economics / Industries / Agribusiness; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General; ... Read more