The Irrigation Advisory Plan of Campania Region is an initiative of the Assessor for Agriculture and Productive Activities, through the Research and Development Service (Se.S.I.R.CA); it consists of an innovative advisory service for irrigation, based on the combined use of Earth Observation data, GIS and Information Technology to provide crop water requirements information from the ield scale ...

drought is common across the south of iran, especially in darab district. accordingly, studying the economic aspects of deficit irrigation technique – that is one of the basic strategies in water saving for reducing water use of cotton as one of the main agricultural products in darab district is essential. in order to investigate the deficit irrigation technique and to determine its economic t...

Quality of water is an important criterion for evaluating the suitability of water for irrigation and drinking. In the present study the analysis of water samples from different sources like open wells, bore wells, farm ponds and streams/rivers of twenty villages of Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district, South-western Kamataka has been carried out. The physico-chemical characteristics of t...

Centre Pivots and Lateral Moves in the Australian Cotton Industry Centre Pivots and Lateral Moves (CP&LMs) or overhead irrigation systems have been successfully installed in every cotton growing district in Australia. This industry now has the capacity to broaden the uptake of this irrigation technology, and benefit from its simplicity and improved water use efficiency while moving away from fa...

Canal scheduling is an important activity that significantly influences production of crops compared to other aspects of agriculture. Irrigation canal scheduling is the activity of preparing an optimal schedule of outlets on supply canal as per need of user, subject to canal system constraints. In this paper, the problem of optimal operational scheduling of irrigation canal with provision to op...

Florida ranks first in citrus production, with nearly 68% of all U.S. citrus growing in the season 2005–2006. Most of the citrus groves are located from central to south Florida, and agricultural irrigation permitting is regulated by three of Florida’s five water management districts. Most of the permitting for citrus production in Highlands, Polk and Hillsborough counties is conducted by the S...

This preliminary study reports for the first time that part of the rural population in the Allahabad district and the urban population in the Suklaganj-Kanpur of Unnao district in the Allahabad-Kanpur track of the upper Ganga plain are drinking and using for agricultural irrigation arsenic contaminated water (maximum arsenic concentrations in drinking water and urine are 707 and 1744 microg L(-...

8 The modernization of irrigation districts in Spain is based on the construction of 9 collective pressurized networks equipped with remote control systems. In this paper, a 10 simulation approach is used to explore the benefits of introducing a collective solid-set 11 irrigation control software. The controller works in combination with a district 12 management database, real time evapotranspi...

abstract the objective of the present study is to assess the performance of 18 irrigation districts from ten countries in the world using the benchmarking method and data mining analysis (cluster analysis). irrigation networks of dez, sefidrood, tajan and voshmgir from iran have been compared with 14 irrigation districts from nine other countries. the k- means algorithm was used to analyze the ...

Burkholderia pseudomallei in the tropics. A cluster of 5 cutaneous melioidosis cases occurred in suburban southwest Australia after an earlier case in January 2012. We collected environmental samples at the first patient’s home in January 2012 and from a nearby health center in December 2013 after 2 new cases occurred in the same postal district. We isolated genotypically identical B. pseudomal...