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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Irrigation technology"”.
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Access to irrigation technology and technical efficiency: a comparison of households with and without access to irrigation technology, in ‘Gorogutu district’, Eastern Ethiopia
… Ethiopia and different NGO’s have been promoting irrigation technology as a viable option in enhancing farm productivity and efficiency improvements. By integrating field observations, economic theory, and econometric analysis, this study assess the extent to which access to irrigation technology …
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Optimal economic combination of irrigation technology and cotton varieties on the High Plains of Texas
… improved technologies including varieties and irrigations systems are being developed and used in production agriculture. Producers are adopting these new technologies; however, they need information on the proper management of these technologies to help maximize their returns and insure their …
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Effect of irrigation technology and plant density on cotton growth, yield, yield components, and water use efficiency
… This study aimed to (i) assess the effect of irrigation technology and plant density on cotton growth, yield, and yield components, and (ii) determine the actual evapotranspiration, water use efficiency, and grass-reference crop coefficients of cotton under different irrigation technologies …
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Three essays on irrigated agriculture in Brazil
The Irrigation technology is an important tool capable of mitigating the adverse effects of climate change, ensuring the yields, raising agricultural productivity rates and increasing employment in rural areas, which generates income and raises food security. Despite its multiple benefits, …
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Irrigation Water Pricing: Technology Adoption, Welfare, and Political Economy
… and its implications on the adoption of modern irrigation technology in the presence of asymmetric information and lobbies. The main results are that under the two-part tariff or the nonlinear pricing, farmers have an incentive to organize and can organize to affect the outcome of water schedule …
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Essays on the spatial dynamic interaction of individual behavior, institutions, and the environment
… chapter is a discrete-time hazard analysis of irrigation technology adoption that assesses the importance of physical heterogeneity on investment timing. Given nonlinearities and thresholds in the relationship between physical variables and crop yields, the adoption of irrigation innovations …
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Short run irrigation water demand : an empirical evaluation of the role of price, crop and technology choice
Considerable interest has arisen regarding irrigation water use in, especially, arid areas where competition for this scarce but crucial commodity is likely to intensify. The immediate implication is that user sectors, of which irrigated agriculture is the largest, must ensure efficient and …
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Modeling and designing the future of drip irrigation : a validated parametric analysis used to design low power, pressure compensating drip emitters
Drip irrigation is a means of distributing the exact amount of water a plant needs by dripping water directly onto the root zone. It can produce up to 90% more crops than rain-fed irrigation, and reduce water consumption by 70% compared to conventional flood irrigation. In the coming years, the …
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Bringing the Water-Efficiency Benefits of Precision Irrigation to Resource-Constrained Farms Through an Automatic Scheduling-Manual Operation Irrigation Tool
… improving farmers’ adoption of water-efficient irrigation equipment and practices is crucial. This aim is particularly imperative in resource-constrained regions like East Africa (EA) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where existing precision irrigation solutions— which are designed to …