Sustainable Practices in Surface and Subsurface Micro Irrigation

Book Overview

This new book, Sustainable Practices in Surface and Subsurface Micro Irrigation, offers a vast amount of knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system. The information covered has worldwide applicability to irrigation management in agriculture.

Focusing on both subsurface and surface micro irrigation, chapters in the book cover a variety of new research and information on:

- Irrigation water requirements for tanier, vegetables, bananas, plantains, beans, and papaya

- Irrigating different types of soils, including sandy soils, wet soils, and mollisols

- New applications for micro irrigation using existing technology, such as meteorological instruments and MicroCAD

- Meteorological instruments for water management

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771880171
• ISBN13: 9781771880176
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"