Grain sorghum was planted at Southwest Research-Extension Cenear near Garden City, KS, under five different irrigation capacities (1 inch every 4, 6, 8,10, or 12 days) and dryland in 2015 and 2016 growing seasons.
Second, under the country scenario there is greater cropland expansion in areas with greater agricultural technological and irrigation capacities, both important factors in sustaining continued increases in crop production efficiencies.
These plans assess local soil and irrigation capacity and offer detailed guidance for what farmers should do if the monsoons are delayed, deficient or haphazard.
Results showed average kernel weight, kernel diameter and test weight of grain sorghum increased as irrigation capacity increased, whereas kernel hardness index decreased as irrigation capacity increased.
Starch pasting temperature and peak time decreased as irrigation capacity increased.
Irrigation capacity had a positive impact on bioethanol yield, whereas both year and interaction between irrigation capacity and year did not show significant effect on bioethanol yield resulting from above normal rainfall received during the growing seasons.
The high losses of water through seepage and evaporation substantially decreased the irrigation capacity by up to 33%.
This is in large part due to lack of irrigation capacity, increases in which would entail significant consequences for Cambodia and Vietnam, located downstream on the Mekong River.
It increases irrigation capacity for a local community but also alters the river system downstream, causing water resource shortages or unsynchronized water for crops.
This paper's contribution is to illustrate, formulate, develop, and apply a new methodology to examine the economic performance from irrigation capacity improvements in the Gila Basin of the American Southwest.
Along with additional storage, removal of constraints on weak transportation capacity, limited production scale, poor information access, weak risk-bearing capacity, limited management skills, scarce labor supply, low food processing capacity, and absolute scale constraints, all can raise the economic value of additional irrigation capacity development.
