water scarcity in arid and semi-arid climate of iran has made deficit irrigation as a strategy for optimal water use and conservation in agricultural sector. this study aimed at evaluating the effects of water-deficit stress and n fertilizer levels on sugar beet performance. the study was conducted in split block design based on randomized complete block design arrangement. the row factor consi...

Freshwater resources in the North China Plain (NCP) are near depletion due to the unceasing overexploitation of deep groundwater, by far the most significant source of freshwater in the region. To deal with the deepening freshwater crisis, brackish water (rich but largely unused water in agriculture) is increasingly being used in irrigation in the region. However, inappropriate irrigation with ...

The use of indicators for sustainability evaluation is an important step towards operationalization of the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development. Many literatures on framework for sustainable water management consider any one dimension of sustainability. In this paper, the sustainability of an irrigation system is assessed from economic and environmental dimension. An optimizat...

The use of treated wastewater for irrigation of crops could result in high nitrate-nitrogen (NO(3)-N) concentrations in the vadose zone and ground water. The goal of this 2-yr field-monitoring study in the deep silty clay loam soils south of Dodge City, Kansas, was to assess how and under what circumstances N from the secondary-treated, wastewater-irrigated corn reached the deep (20-45 m) water...

the effect of full irrigation (fi), partial root-zone drying at two levels (receiving 75 percent of et (prd75), 55 percent of et (prd55)) and deficit irrigation treatments at the same levels (75 percent (di75) and 55 percent (di55)) under drip irrigation on nitrogen uptake and leaching in a maize field in sari agricultural sciences and natural resources university were carried out during years ...

decreasing irrigation via partial root zoon drying (prd) save water and decreased production expenses. for comparing common irrigation and prd on tomato cv. falcato an experiment was designed in massey university of new zealand. treatments were control (irrigation in a field capacity in each irrigation to whole root zoon) and prd (irrigation in a half of field capacity in each irrigation to one...