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Alternative and Non-conventional Soil and Crop Management Strategies for Increasing Water Use Efficiency

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Agricultural production is pivotal for sustainable supply of food, fiber and shelter. However, a complex plethora of biotic and abiotic factors coupled with climatic changes pose a major threat to sustainable crop production and global food security. Agriculture is the single major consumer of global fresh water resources, however, non-judicial use of fresh water and changes in the global hydrological cycle have put a significant pressure on fresh water resources from local to regional scales. There is an urgent need to devise both efficient as well as practical crop and soil management strategies to enhance water use efficiency (WUE) in agroecosystems. A combination of soil- and plant-based factors affect WUE in cropping systems. Depending upon the region, both conventional and modern tools are proposed and effectively being applied to increase WUE in various crops, especially in the regions under greater threat of fresh water deficiency for crops.

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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Farah Riaz, Muhammad Riaz, Muhammad Saleem Arif, Tahira Yasmeen, Maryam Adil, Shafaqat Ali & Muhammad Rizwan

  2. Department of Botany, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Arslan Ashraf

  3. Institute of Agricultural Sciences, The University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

    Rashid Mahmood

  4. Institute of Soil Science, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

    Qaiser Hussain

  5. Department of Agricultural Chemistry, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Afia Zia

  6. Department of Soil Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

    Muhammad Arif Ali

  7. Department of Agronomy, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Muhammad Arif

  8. Hainan Key Laboratory For Sustaianable Utilization of Tropical Bioresource, College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan, China

    Shah Fahad

  9. Department of Agronomy, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan

    Shah Fahad

  10. Department of Agriculture, The University of Swabi, Swabi, Pakistan

    Shah Fahad

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Riaz, F. et al. (2020). Alternative and Non-conventional Soil and Crop Management Strategies for Increasing Water Use Efficiency. In: Fahad, S., et al. Environment, Climate, Plant and Vegetation Growth. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49732-3_13

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