Controlling for pre-conditions that determine irrigation choices clearly improves our understanding of small-scale farmer irrigation adoption decisions and we argue that weaker knowledge about and lower automatic diffusion of modern irrigation is a main obstacle for improving small-scale farmer productivity.
Higher soil salinity in the root zone is observed at harvest under DI-60 (3.4, 3.9, 3.9 dS/m, respectively, for the three years) and farmer irrigation (3.3, 3.6, 3.9 dS/m) treatments compared to FI-100 treatment (2.3, 2.6 and 3.1 dS/m).
But the Yaqui Valley farmers' irrigation district has been one of the few in Mexico to be in equilibrium, Alejandro Olea, a lawyer for the farmers, argues.
The idealistic Política Hidráulica discourse, linked with 'regenerationism', glorified small-farmer irrigation and promoted hydraulic works and the expansion of irrigation as a socio-economic and cultural-political solution for Spain's bankrupt and 'degenerated' condition in the mid-19th Century.
The authors of this paper recommend the farmers, irrigation experts, water resources managers and decision makers in the region to apply those techniques for improving water use efficiency.
The dam gave farmers irrigation water that dramatically expanded agriculture but ended the salmon migration.
The project has faced more than a dozen lawsuits, brought by churches, corporations, farmers, irrigation districts and government agencies.
Prolonged dry seasons and sea-level rise, brought about by climate change, is pushing saltwater from the South China Sea deeper inland, compromising farmers' irrigation channels.
However, in application, the project instead diverted more water away from the Everglades, changed water schedules to meet sugarcane farmers' irrigation needs, and flat-out refused to release water to Everglades National Park, until much of the land was unrecognizable.
This study was conducted in LTSB which is designated as one of the development corridors in the country and huge investments are being incurred to promote large scale farmer managed irrigation and also to generate hydroelectric power.
This study was conducted in Lake Tana Sub-basin (LTSB) which is designated as one of the development corridors in the country and huge investments are being incurred to promote large scale farmer managed irrigation and also to generate hydroelectric power.
