Resources Tagged: Irrigation Systems

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  1. Hill Irrigation: Water and Development in Mountain Agriculture

    01.12.1995 Mountain agriculture has attracted attention both for its complex adaptation to particular circumstances, and for its marginality and instability in a changing world. Irrigation plays a range of roles in mountain farming systems and their dynamics or change. Hill Irrigation examines the...
    Irrigation Management Irrigation Systems Hill farming Irrigation Farming Sloping Agricultur... SALT

  2. Injection of Chemicals into Irrigation Systems: Rates, Volumes, and Injection Periods

    06.01.1990 This publication concentrates on the management aspects of chemigation and chemigation influences other aspects of irrigation management. 12 pages, illustrations
    Fertilizers Irrigation Systems Chemicals

  3. A Field Manual for Water Lifting and Management in Small-Scale Irrigation Systems in Niger

    01.01.1992 This manual has been developed primarily for small-scale irrigated "microsystems," which are usually characterized as single-source/single-user systems. It is targeted primarily at extension and agricultural service agents, and PVO/NGO personnel, who are involved in the development, design,...
    Irrigation Systems Water Lifting

  4. Modern Irrigation Technologies for Smallholders in Developing Countries

    Modern Irrigation Technologies reviews the experience of small holders with irrigation technologies under a range of diverse conditions in many different countries. Some people argue that modern irrigation technologies are the key to increased food production. However, projects introducing modern...
    Irrigation Systems Smallholder Developing countries Irrigation Farming Irrigation Management

  5. Salinity Problems in Arid Lands Irrigation: A Literature Review and Selected Bibliography

    01.01.1972 This paper has two goals: evaluation and education. It is not, in the usual sense, a critical review paper, since no effort is made to assess the quality of the various research contributions cited. Rather, an attemp is made to stand back, gauge the broad accomplishments, trends, and gaps in the...
    Salinity Irrigation Management Irrigation Systems Arid regions agric...

  6. Water and the Land: A History of American Irrigation

    This illustrated book commemorates the part of our history that irrigators played in developing our water resources and the impact that development had on the growth of our great nation. Over 150 photographs and drawings will lead you from the early days of irrigation development to the very...
    United States Irrigation Farming Irrigation Systems Irrigation

  7. Irrigation Pumping

    06.01.1982 This guide is intended for use by all who are concerned with the development of irrigated land for increasing food production in developing nations. 23 pages, photos
    Developing Nations Irrigation Systems Water Management

  8. Tubewell Transfer in Gujarat: A Study of the GWRDC Approach

    01.01.2003 This study analysed the reasons for the sudden turn around in GWRDC's tubewell-transfer program and found that proactive policy changes under a new management helped the agency achieve rare management helped the agency achieve rare success in tubewell transfer, which had so far eluded them. 34...
    Case Studies India Irrigation Systems Irrigation Management Irrigation

  9. Water Lifting Devices and Groundwater Management for Irrigation

    Report of the Expert Consultation of the Asian Network on Water Lifting Devices for Irrigation, Bangkok, Thailand 27 Sept. - 1 Oct. 1993 The Expert Consultaion of Asian Network on Water Lifting Devices for Irrigation concluded that in the Asia-Pacific region, "Strategy on investment for irriation...
    Irrigation Management Groundwater Water Lifting Irrigation Systems

  10. Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation: Lessons from International Experience with Irrigation Management Transfer

    This report reviews several decades of global experience in transferring management of government-run irrigation systems to farmer associations or other nongovernement agencies in an attempt to apply the lessons of success to the African smallholder irrigation context.
    Irrigation Systems Smallholder Irrigation Management Africa