Major crops and water scarcity in Egypt [electronic resource] : irrigation water management under changing climate / Samiha Ouda.
Ouda, Samiha, author.
2016
S600.64.E3
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Title
Major crops and water scarcity in Egypt [electronic resource] : irrigation water management under changing climate / Samiha Ouda.
Author
Ouda, Samiha, author.
ISBN
9783319217710 (electronic book)
3319217712 (electronic book)
9783319217703
3319217704
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21771-0
Published
Cham : Springer, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : color illustrations, color maps
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-21771-0 doi
Call Number
S600.64.E3
Dewey Decimal Classification
630.2/515
Summary
This book includes multi-disciplinary quantifications of the effect of climate change on water requirements of wheat, maize, rice and sugarcane. Furthermore, it provides on-farm management that faces water scarcity under current situation and under climate change. Changing cultivation method (raised beds instead of furrows or basins) or increasing irrigation application efficiency (sprinkler or drip systems instead of surface irrigation) can reduce the applied water. Irrigated agriculture, although profitable, it endures wasteful use of valuable water resources. Taking into account the risk of climate change, developing countries like Egypt will highly suffer. Furthermore, the effect of intercropping (two crops use the applied water to one of them), and/or using crop rotations (arrange crops to reduce the applied water, increase water productivity and sustain soil fertility) on production and consumed irrigation water by crops were comprehensively analyzed.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 27, 2015).
Series
SpringerBriefs in water science and technology.
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Print version: 9783319217703
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