Water management and utilization is an ongoing problem in developing countries with semi-arid to arid climates such as Afghanistan. The lack of effective irrigation systems are oftentimes the most limiting factor for maximizing agricultural productivity in these countries. In Afghanistan, the most widely used irrigation methods are basin/border for cereal crops and furrow for vegetables and gra...

unsustainable harvesting of agricultural water resources in the province of kerman, has caused an annual average of one-meter drop in ground water levels. surface irrigation methods in pistachio trees have low efficiency because of inherent characteristics and its incorrect application, as well as low access to water resource in pistachio regions. therefore under the current critical condition,...

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...

• A new deterministic constrained optimisation algorithm has been developed to provide a strategy for scheduling water delivery in pressurized irrigation network minimise energy consumption. The provides the opening and closing combination inject constant flow rates into reduce We tested this real network, getting an expenditure savings ranging from 10 40%. utility manager can adapt schedule co...

current study was carried out with aim to evaluate the effect of pressurized irrigation methods and furrow irrigation method with municipal effluent on distribution of salinity and moisture in the soil profile. the experimental study was designed by split plot layout with three irrigation methods including furrow, surface drip (sd) irrigation and subsurface drip irrigation (ssd) and two water q...

pressurized irrigation is a recent development that consumes more energy for the pressure produced. in thisstudy, energy consumption, waste and efficiency were investigated at a diesel and electrical sprinklerirrigation pumping plant in some fields in hamadan province during 2007-8. nebraska performance criteria(npc) were used to compare sprinkler irrigation pumping plant performance. the resul...