Automation in drip irrigation for enhancing water use efficiency in cereal systems of South Asia: Status and prospects

RK Sidhu, R Kumar, PS Rana, ML Jat - Advances in agronomy, 2021 - Elsevier
Water is a key driver of grain production, and growing water scarcity is one of the major
challenges for agriculture. Around 70% of all fresh water around the world and up to 95% in …

Sub-surface drip fertigation with conservation agriculture in a rice-wheat system: A breakthrough for addressing water and nitrogen use efficiency

HS Sidhu, ML Jat, Y Singh, RK Sidhu, N Gupta… - Agricultural Water …, 2019 - Elsevier
The future of the South Asia's rice-wheat (RW) production system is at stake due to
continuously depleting aquifers and increasing pressure on underground water under …

Re-designing irrigated intensive cereal systems through bundling precision agronomic innovations for transitioning towards agricultural sustainability in North-West …

HS Jat, PC Sharma, A Datta, M Choudhary… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
A study was conducted to design productive, profitable, irrigation water¸ nitrogen and energy
use efficient intensive cereal systems (rice-wheat; RW and maize-wheat; MW) in North-West …

A review on applications and utility of remote sensing and geographic information systems in agriculture and natural resource management

D Katkani, A Babbar, VK Mishra… - International …, 2022 - journal.scienceopenlibraries.com
Emerging technologies include remote sensing, global positioning systems (GPS),
geographic information systems (GIS), and the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things …

Precise irrigation water and nitrogen management improve water and nitrogen use efficiencies under conservation agriculture in the maize-wheat systems

N Gupta, Y Singh, HS Jat, LK Singh, KM Choudhary… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
A 3-year field experiment was setup to address the threat of underground water depletion
and sustainability of agrifood systems. Subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) system combined with …

[HTML][HTML] Appraisal of complementarity of subsurface drip fertigation and conservation agriculture for physiological performance and water economy of maize

K Patra, CM Parihar, HS Nayak, B Rana… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) in north-west (NW) India are facing a severe decline
in ground water due to prevalent rice-based cropping systems. To combat this issue …

Carbon and water footprints of major crop production in India

AK Nayak, R Tripathi, M Debnath, CK Swain… - Pedosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Scarcity of water and emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the two key environmental
issues affecting crop production in India. Reducing the carbon footprint (CF) and water …

Effects of wheat row spacing layout and drip tape spacing on yield and water productivity in sandy clay loam soil in a semi-arid region

AG Firouzabadi, J Baghani, M Jovzi, M Albaji - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent droughts and subsequent reduction of water resources in arid and semi-arid regions
have highlighted the necessity of altering surface irrigation techniques to modern methods of …

Drip irrigation management for wheat under clay soil in arid conditions

H Mostafa, R El-Nady, M Awad, M El-Ansary - Ecological Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Uneven water distribution, misuse of water and inefficient watering techniques are some of
the major causes playing devastation with water security, therefore, the aim of this work was …

Water footprint in rice-based cropping systems of South Asia

R Bhatt, A Hossain, MA Busari, RS Meena - … Footprints Management for …, 2021 - Springer
Global population is increasing at an alarming rate, need to produce more food grains with
the shrieking infinite natural resources, and water security is a major problem on the planet …