Yields of dryland (rainfed) wheat in Australia have increased steadily over the past century despite rainfall being unchanged, indicating that the rainfall-use efficiency has increased. Analyses suggest that at least half of the increase in rainfall-use efficiency can be attributed to improved agronomic management. Various methods of analysing the factors influencing dryland yields and rainfall...

Data from runoff plots operated over a ®ve year period show that signi®cantly less overland ̄ow is generated with a seasonal no-till ridge system than with contour tillage or straight tillage systems. Seasonal no-till ridge is the optimum system for increasing the availability of water for rainfed agriculture on the dryland soils in the hilly area of Sichuan Province, China. # 2000 Published by...

cultivated area, yield and production trend of wheat (triticum aestivum l.), barley (hordeum vulgare l.), potato (solanum tuberosum l.), alfalfa (medicago sativa l.) and chickpea (cicer arietinum l.) as the main crops of kurdistan province were studied during 1983-2006 using time series analysis and the situation of future were predicted for 2006-2021 period. the results showed that the cultiva...

Spain is one of the countries with the highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the EU-27. Consequently, mitigation strategies need to be reported and quantified to accomplish the goals and requirements of the Kyoto Protocol. In this study, a first estimation of the carbon (C) mitigation potential of tillage reduction in Mediterranean rainfed Spain is presented. Results from eight studies ...

lack of sufficient information on conservation tillage systems leads to the dominating use of conventional tillage practice in most parts of iran. testing other management practices may help in decision making regarding the types of tillage systems that reduce soil deterioration. a three- years field experiment was conducted to study the effects of conventional (ct), reduced (rt) and no-till (n...

The ISPC reviewed CRP 3.6 on Dryland Cereals in parallel with CRP 3.5 (on grain legumes) and noted many similarities in the basic characteristics of the programs and in their management and governance construct. Both CRPs are led by ICRISAT, and both propose research on a set of crops that are in the CGIAR Centers’ current research portfolio. In addition, both are similar in having to rationali...

this study examined the environmental impacts of irrigated and rainfed barley agroecosystems of iran based on nitrogen levels by using lca methodology during 1999-2013. four steps includung goal definition and scoping, inventory analysis, life cycle impact assessment and integration & interpretation were considered. impact categories were acidification, eutrophication and global warming. functi...

In most rainfed production areas in Iran, where wheat fallow is common, crop yield and resource sustainability could be improved by changing to more diverse crop rotation. It seems necessary to identify crop cultivars suitable for such diversification. This study was aimed to determine responses of two common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivars with different growth habits (Sayyad as an inde...