Management Strategies for Water Use Efficiency and Micro Irrigated Crops
Principles, Practices, and Performance
Innovations and Challenges in Micro Irrigation Series

Management Strategies for Water Use Efficiency and Micro Irrigated Crops presents new research and technologies for making better use of water resources for agricultural purposes. The chapters focus on better management to improve allocation and irrigation water efficiency and look at performance factors as well. Chapters look at irrigation technology, environmental conditions, and scheduling of water application.

One section of the book focuses on water management in the cultivation of sugarcane, a very important industrial crop used in many fields. Other sections are devoted to principles and challenging technologies, water use efficiency for drip-irrigated crops, performance of fertigated rice under micro irrigation, and evaluation of performance of drip-irrigated crops.

This valuable book is a must for those struggling to find ways to address the need to maintain efficient crop production in the midst of water shortages. With chapters from hands-on experts in the field, the book will be an invaluable reference and guide to effective micro irrigation methods.

Part 1: Micro Irrigation: Principles And Challenging Technologies 1. Wireless Automation of Drip Irrigation System Using Cloud Computing 2. Fertilizer Recommendations for Drip-Irrigated Cotton under Inductive Cum Targeted Yield Model 3. Supplementary Irrigation Using Rain-Gun Sprinklers for Increasing Productivity in Drylands 4. Impact of Irrigation Methods on Soil, Water, and Nutrient Use Efficiency of Integrated Cropping: Livestock Production Systems 5. Estimation of Resource Use Pattern of Crops Cultivated Across Different Farm Sizes Part 2: Water Use Efficiency For Drip-Irrigated Crops 6. Water Use Efficiency of Fodder (Desmanthus virgatus) under Check Basin, Furrow, and Rain-Gun Irrigation Methods 7. Water Productivity of Micro Irrigated Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) 8. Water Use Efficiency of Pearl Millet and Napier Hybrid Grass under Irrigation Regimes and Nitrogen Fertigation Part 3: Performance Of Fertigated Rice Under Micro Irrigation 9. Status of Drip Irrigation Research in Rice: A Review 10. Performance of Fertigated Aerobic Rice under Drip Irrigation Part 4: Drip Fertigated Sugarcane: Management Strategies And Economics 11. Performance of Castor + Onion Intercropping System under Drip Fertigation 12. Performance of Intercrops under a Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative 13. Water-Soluble Fertilizers for Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative under a Subsurface Drip Fertigation System 14. Performance, Water Productivity, and Economics of Sugarcane Production in Different Agro-Climatic Zones of Tamil Nadu 15. Economic Returns of Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative Technology in Sugarcane Cultivation Part 5: Performance Of Drip-Irrigated Crops 16. Automated and Non-Automated Fertigation Systems for Cucumber inside a Poly House 17. Performance of Drip-Irrigated Cauliflower using a Poly Lactic Acid Roll Planter 18. Performance of Drip-Fertigated Banana under Polyethylene Mulching 19. Performance of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) under Drip Fertigation 20. Performance of Drip-Fertigated Tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa L.) under PE Mulching

Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, is now a Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering from the General Engineering Department at the College of Engineering at University of Puerto Rico–Mayaguez Campus (UPRM), and Senior Technical Editor-in-Chief for Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering for Apple Academic Press Inc.

B. J. Pandian, PhD, is presently working as Director of the Water Technology Centre, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore, India.