The North China Plain (NCP) is a major grain production zone that plays a critical role in ensuring China's food supply. Irrigation is commonly used during grain production; however, the high annual water deficit [precipitation (P) minus evapotranspiration (ET)] in typical irrigated cropland does not support double cropping systems (such as maize and wheat) and this has resulted in the steep de...

Any change in climate will have implications for climate-sensitive systems such as agriculture, forestry, and some other natural resources. With respect to agriculture, changes in solar radiation, temperature, and precipitation will produce changes in crop yields, crop mix, cropping systems, scheduling of field operations, grain moisture content at harvest, and hence, on the economics of agricu...

The production of summer maize is greatly affected by nitrogen (N) sources through regulating root growth and distribution. Four N treatments in the field experiment were designed as UAN (urea ammonium nitrate solution was applied under traditional side-dressing method), urea UWFI (UAN underwater fertiliser integration technology) CK (no applied). results showed that length density, surface are...

Maize is a major crop that particularly sensitive to climate change. In addition, the extreme shortage of water resources threatens production. Thus, improving effective utilization rate an important problem discuss. this regard, we quantified combined effects meteorological conditions and irrigation levels during different growth stages on city-level maize yields in Jing-Jin-Ji region from 199...

To investigate the different responses of crops to drought stress under field conditions Central European Climate for selected crop rotations, a experiment was conducted at test site in Czech Republic from 2014 2021. Depending on crop, rainout shelters were placed late spring and early summer study effects final stages development. Due these associated lower water availability during summer, re...