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Irrigation Management for Efficient Crop Production

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Application efficiency:

Relationship between the target irrigation depth (depth of water stored in the root zone to be used by the crop) and the depth of water applied to meet this target during a single irrigation event.

Conservation agriculture (CA):

An agricultural production system aimed at achieving a sustainable and profitable agriculture through the application of three principles: minimal soil disturbance, permanent organic soil cover, and diversification of crop species in rotations or associations.

Decision support systems (DSS):

Interactive information systems (not limited to computerized systems) that aid decision makers to identify and solve problems, and make decisions, which may be rapidly changing and are not easily specified in advance.

Deficit irrigation (DI):

An irrigation strategy based on applying irrigation depths that are less than the full crop water requirements (ET), either throughout the crop life cycle (continuous or sustained deficit irrigation) or...

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    Elías Fereres & Margarita García-Vila

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Fereres, E., García-Vila, M. (2018). Irrigation Management for Efficient Crop Production. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_162-3

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