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37 Citations
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18 May 2021

Ethiopia’s food supply and economy in general is largely dependent on rain-fed agriculture. Hence, irrigation development is vital to minimize the risk of crop failure and sustain agricultural production. The purpose of this review was to collect pub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,779 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2019

Water-saving irrigation development level (WIDL) refers to reasonably and accurately judging a water-saving area based on the analysis of all factors affecting the water-saving irrigation development. The evaluation of regional WIDL is the premise of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,121 Views
11 Pages

Defining Spatial Priorities for Irrigation Development Using the Soil Conservation and Water Use Efficiency Criteria

  • Atila Bezdan,
  • Bosko Blagojevic,
  • Milica Vranesevic,
  • Pavel Benka,
  • Radovan Savic and
  • Jovana Bezdan

This paper presents a methodology for defining spatial priorities for irrigation development in Vojvodina Province (Serbia). The purpose of the methodology is to take into account several UN Sustainable Development Goals and to try to minimize land d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
12,234 Views
30 Pages

Modeling Acequia Irrigation Systems Using System Dynamics: Model Development, Evaluation, and Sensitivity Analyses to Investigate Effects of Socio-Economic and Biophysical Feedbacks

  • Benjamin L. Turner,
  • Vincent Tidwell,
  • Alexander Fernald,
  • José A. Rivera,
  • Sylvia Rodriguez,
  • Steven Guldan,
  • Carlos Ochoa,
  • Brian Hurd,
  • Kenneth Boykin and
  • Andres Cibils

13 October 2016

Agriculture-based irrigation communities of northern New Mexico have survived for centuries despite the arid environment in which they reside. These irrigation communities are threatened by regional population growth, urbanization, a changing demogra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,144 Views
18 Pages

Developing Irrigation Management at District Scale Based on Water Monitoring: Study on Lis Valley, Portugal

  • José M. Gonçalves,
  • Susana Ferreira,
  • Manuel Nunes,
  • Rui Eugénio,
  • Paula Amador,
  • Olga Filipe,
  • Isabel Maria Duarte,
  • Margarida Teixeira,
  • Teresa Vasconcelos and
  • Henrique Damásio
  • + 1 author

Irrigation districts play a decisive role in Portuguese agriculture and require the adaptation to the new water management paradigm through a change in technology and practices compatible with farmers’ technical know-how and economic sustainabi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,300 Views
18 Pages

25 November 2018

The use of groundwater resources for dry season irrigation has gained currency in Ghana. The north-east of the country has seen the cultivation of vegetables using groundwater from shallow aquifers; an emerging livelihood activity which lessens food...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,247 Views
14 Pages

1 January 2022

In this study, we developed an automatic irrigation method using an image-based irrigation system for high-quality tomato production in a greenhouse by investigating effects of a diurnal periodic cycle of irrigation on the photosynthesis, growth, yie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,253 Views
18 Pages

15 December 2021

The Yazoo–Mississippi Delta is one of the regions within the Lower Mississippi River Basin where substantial irrigation development and consequent groundwater depletion have occurred over the past three decades. To describe this irrigation deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
944 Views
17 Pages

Development of a Reinforcement Learning-Based Intelligent Irrigation Decision-Making Model

  • Xufeng Zhang,
  • Xinrong Zheng,
  • Zhanyi Gao,
  • Yu Fan,
  • Ke Zhou,
  • Weixian Zhang and
  • Xiaomin Chang

18 October 2025

Originating from the practical demands of digital irrigation district construction, this study aims to provide support for precise irrigation management. This study developed a reinforcement learning-based intelligent irrigation decision-making model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,696 Views
41 Pages

Development Experience of a Context-Aware System for Smart Irrigation Using CASO and IRRIG Ontologies

  • Quang-Duy Nguyen,
  • Catherine Roussey,
  • María Poveda-Villalón,
  • Christophe de Vaulx and
  • Jean-Pierre Chanet

5 March 2020

The rapid development of information and communication technologies and wireless sensor networks has transformed agriculture practices. New tools and methods are used to support farmers in their activities. This paper presents a context-aware system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,086 Views
19 Pages

Development of a Low-Cost Open-Source Platform for Smart Irrigation Systems

  • Francisco Puig,
  • Juan Antonio Rodríguez Díaz and
  • María Auxiliadora Soriano

22 November 2022

Nowadays, smart irrigation is becoming an essential goal in agriculture, where water and energy are increasingly limited resources. Its importance will grow in the coming years in the agricultural sector where the optimal use of resources and environ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,040 Views
15 Pages

Variable-Rate Irrigation in Diversified Vegetable Crops: System Development and Evaluation

  • Thalissa Oliveira Pires Magalhães,
  • Marinaldo Ferreira Pinto,
  • Marcus Vinícius Morais de Oliveira and
  • Daniel Fonseca de Carvalho

6 September 2024

Diversified cropping systems offer an alternative to sustainable agriculture, but they present high spatial variability. This study aims to develop and evaluate an automated irrigation system and a variable-rate water application for areas with diver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,034 Views
12 Pages

11 June 2022

The demand for high-quality tomatoes is increasing; however, their production requires skillful techniques. To develop an automated irrigation method for producing high-quality tomatoes in a greenhouse, we used an image-based irrigation system to stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,562 Views
18 Pages

30 August 2021

Sustainable water management is a core sustainable development goal (SDG) that also contributes to other SDGs, including food and water security, ecosystem health, and climate adaptation. To achieve these synergies, policies must target efforts to re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,293 Views
12 Pages

Effect of Saline Irrigation Water on Alfalfa Growth and Development in Saline–Alkali Soils

  • Guiyue Bai,
  • Feng He,
  • Guilian Shan,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Zongyong Tong,
  • Yali Cao and
  • Qifeng Yuan

25 November 2024

Saline irrigation water can enhance agricultural production in water-scarce regions. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is a moderately saline-tolerant legume forage grass, and growing alfalfa in saline–alkali areas under irrigated conditions has hig...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,534 Views
19 Pages

Water flow and sedimentation processes have been significantly erratic at the Chókwè Irrigation Scheme (CIS) and have affected its hydraulic performance. Given its expansion there is need to understand these processes taking place on-si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,504 Views
20 Pages

Development of a Low-Cost Optical Sensor to Detect Eutrophication in Irrigation Reservoirs

  • Javier Rocher,
  • Lorena Parra,
  • Jose M. Jimenez,
  • Jaime Lloret and
  • Daniel A. Basterrechea

17 November 2021

In irrigation ponds, the excess of nutrients can cause eutrophication, a massive growth of microscopic algae. It might cause different problems in the irrigation infrastructure and should be monitored. In this paper, we present a low-cost sensor base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,517 Views
15 Pages

10 March 2017

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the connection between local development projects and the residents’ social capital in Bohol, The Philippines. From this perspective, we hypothesized that social behaviors of local farmers are influenced by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,489 Views
14 Pages

17 October 2023

Both the demand for agricultural irrigation and the level of water-saving technology in water-scarce regions have met food demand with technological progress and economic growth. There are differences in irrigation water demand drivers in regions wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
11,568 Views
27 Pages

Research and Development of an IoT Smart Irrigation System for Farmland Based on LoRa and Edge Computing

  • Ying Zhang,
  • Xingchen Wang,
  • Liyong Jin,
  • Jun Ni,
  • Yan Zhu,
  • Weixing Cao and
  • Xiaoping Jiang

30 January 2025

In response to the current key issues in the field of smart irrigation for farmland, such as the lack of data sources and insufficient integration, a low degree of automation in drive execution and control, and over-reliance on cloud platforms for an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,521 Views
25 Pages

Development of Smart Irrigation Equipment for Soilless Crops Based on the Current Most Representative Water-Demand Sensors

  • Francisco Sánchez Millán,
  • Francisco J. Ortiz,
  • Teresa C. Mestre Ortuño,
  • Antonio Frutos and
  • Vicente Martínez

16 March 2023

Due to the edaphoclimatic conditions in southeast Spain, which are expected to worsen due to climate change, more efficient ways of using water must be found to maintain sustainable agriculture. Due to the current high price of irrigation control sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
968 Views
19 Pages

Non-destructive monitoring of chlorophyll content through Soil Plant Analysis Development (SPAD) values is essential for precision agriculture in water-limited regions. However, current estimation methods using spectral information alone face signifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,848 Views
21 Pages

Root Development of Transplanted Cotton and Simulation of Soil Water Movement under Different Irrigation Methods

  • Hao Zhang,
  • Hao Liu,
  • Chitao Sun,
  • Yang Gao,
  • Xuewen Gong,
  • Jingsheng Sun and
  • Wanning Wang

11 July 2017

Winter wheat and cotton are the main crops grown on the North China Plain (NCP). Cotton is often transplanted after the winter wheat harvest to solve the competition for cultivated land between winter wheat and cotton, and to ensure that both crops c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,619 Views
17 Pages

5 May 2023

Water is an important input for irrigated agriculture. However, the irrigation sector, especially in developing countries, often faces pressure to secure water for production activities and maintain irrigation services. To sustain the supply and deli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,252 Views
12 Pages

22 September 2022

The potential for development of saline land is enormous; the concept has recently attracted great scientific attention regarding its use and development. It is especially crucial to consider the issue of ecological balance when carrying out large-sc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,570 Views
20 Pages

Informing Equitable Water and Food Policies through Accurate Spatial Information on Irrigated Areas in Smallholder Farming Systems

  • James Magidi,
  • Barbara van Koppen,
  • Luxon Nhamo,
  • Sylvester Mpandeli,
  • Rob Slotow and
  • Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi

16 December 2021

Accurate information on irrigated areas’ spatial distribution and extent are crucial in enhancing agricultural water productivity, water resources management, and formulating strategic policies that enhance water and food security and ecologica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,518 Views
19 Pages

29 April 2023

Proper irrigation management, especially for tomatoes that are sensitive to water, is the key to ensuring sustainable tomato production. Using a low-cost sensor coupled with IoT technology could help to achieve precise control of the moisture content...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,279 Views
13 Pages

16 December 2022

It is known that high N doses, N/K imbalances, and frequent irrigation favor Verticillium wilt. The influence of fertilization and its interaction with the frequency of irrigation on the development of Verticillium wilt of olive (VWO) has been evalua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,187 Views
25 Pages

Irrigated agriculture in arid and semi-arid regions is seriously threatened by water shortage and soil salinization. The well-canal conjunctive irrigation scheme provides a stable groundwater resource for irrigation and can reduce surface salt accumu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,354 Views
18 Pages

8 July 2025

Global changes and society’s development necessitate the improvement of water use and irrigation water saving, which require a set of water management measures to best deal with the necessary changes. This study considers the framework of the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,721 Views
15 Pages

Development and Evaluation of an Emitter with a Low-Pressure Drip-Irrigation System for Sustainable Eggplant Production

  • Khokan Kumer Sarker,
  • Akbar Hossain,
  • Khandakar Faisal Ibn Murad,
  • Sujit Kumar Biswas,
  • Farzana Akter,
  • Rahena Parvin Rannu,
  • Mohammad Moniruzzaman,
  • Nazmun Nahar Karim and
  • Jagadish Timsina

Drip-irrigation can improve uniformity in water distribution, water use efficiency, and crop productivity in the saline and nonsaline regions of South Asia and in Bangladesh where the availability and quality of water resources are scare for sustaina...

  • Review
  • Open Access
109 Citations
35,599 Views
25 Pages

11 August 2023

Global drylands, covering about 41% of Earth’s surface and inhabited by 38% of the world’s population, are facing the stark challenges of water scarcity, low water productivity, and food insecurity. This paper highlights the major constra...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,432 Views
8 Pages

Tomato Fruit Development in Response to Different Irrigation Practices: Developmental Study of Pericarp Cell Layers

  • Ilinka Pećinar,
  • Sofija Pekić Quarrie,
  • Nadia Bertin,
  • Dragana Rančić,
  • Slađana Savić,
  • Zorica Jovanović and
  • Radmila Stikić

Many vegetable crop plants, including tomato, have high water needs and one of the options to overcome the negative effects of water reduction on yield is the use of deficit irrigation methods. Detailed knowledge on the effects of different irrigatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,981 Views
22 Pages

26 March 2020

Water use measures are being implemented in irrigation areas to make better use of limited water resources and reduce adverse environmental impacts. A semi-analytical model is developed and tested with a numerical model to estimate changes in timing...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,416 Views
12 Pages

Adaptive Agricultural Strategies for Facing Water Deficit in Sweet Maize Production: A Case Study of a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Region

  • Lea Piscitelli,
  • Milica Colovic,
  • Adel Aly,
  • Mohamad Hamze,
  • Mladen Todorovic,
  • Vito Cantore and
  • Rossella Albrizio

20 November 2021

Maize is a crucial global commodity, which is used not only for food, but also as an alternative crop in biogas production and as a major energy-supply ingredient in animal diets. However, climate change is jeopardizing current maize production due t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,126 Views
21 Pages

Requirements for Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture

  • Willibald Loiskandl and
  • Reinhard Nolz

9 February 2021

The aim of this review is to present a holistic view on irrigation with respect to local environmental and social conditions. Future irrigation development is addressed with a focus on sustainable development. However, technical irrigation aspects ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,812 Views
16 Pages

Assessing the Contribution of Smallholder Irrigation to Household Food Security in Zimbabwe

  • Norman Mupaso,
  • Godswill Makombe,
  • Raymond Mugandani and
  • Paramu L. Mafongoya

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 seeks to end hunger and guarantee food and nutrition security worldwide by 2030. Smallholder irrigation development remains a key strategy to achieve SDG 2. This study assesses how smallholder irrigation contribut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,760 Views
21 Pages

Effects of Irrigation with Treated Slaughterhouse Effluent and Bradyrhizobium spp. Inoculation on Soybean Development and Productivity: Strategies for Sustainable Management

  • Ana Carolina Murad Lima,
  • Lisiane Brichi,
  • Lucas Renato Trevisan,
  • André Leão de Souza Dominguez,
  • Gustavo Nocera Santiago,
  • Tamara Maria Gomes and
  • Fabrício Rossi

11 January 2025

Water scarcity challenges in agriculture are prompting the exploration of alternative irrigation sources, including treated effluents. This study investigates the effects of irrigation with treated slaughterhouse effluent on soybean productivity and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,535 Views
19 Pages

Precise water management is essential for the efficient development of irrigated agricultural crops in the Hetao Irrigation Area of Inner Mongolia. Given the severe water scarcity in the region and the significant use of intercropping as a cropping m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,752 Views
24 Pages

Development and Test of Solutions to Enlarge the Power of PV Irrigation and Application to a 140 kW PV-Diesel Representative Case

  • Rita H. Almeida,
  • Isaac B. Carrêlo,
  • Eduardo Lorenzo,
  • Luis Narvarte,
  • José Fernández-Ramos,
  • Francisco Martínez-Moreno and
  • Luis M. Carrasco

19 December 2018

The current state of the art of photovoltaic (PV) irrigation systems is limited to PV peak powers below 40 kWp, which does not cover the irrigation needs of farmers, co-operatives, irrigator communities, and agro-industries. This limitation of power...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,181 Views
16 Pages

Smallholder irrigation technologies introduced in sub-Saharan Africa are often unsustainable in the sense that they are not maintained by their users. In contrast, there is clear evidence that smallholder farmers have been developing and expanding ir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,497 Views
26 Pages

29 October 2020

Citrus yields have declined by almost 56% since Huanglongbing (HLB) was first found in Florida (2005). That reduction forced citrus growers to replant trees at much higher densities to counter-balance tree loss. The current project aims to determine...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
21,022 Views
21 Pages

Rapid population growth, rising food demand, and climate change have created significant challenges to meet the water demands for agriculture. Effective irrigation water management is essential to address the world’s water crisis. The transitio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,230 Views
20 Pages

18 August 2025

This study developed an efficient cultivation strategy for cabbage production in paddy fields. To address poor drainage, discarded coir substrates (CS) were reused and compared with conventional paddy soil (PS). Four irrigation levels (ETc140, ETc100...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,037 Views
25 Pages

Exploring Irrigation and Water Supply Technologies for Smallholder Farmers in the Mediterranean Region

  • Dina Pereira,
  • Joao Carlos Correia Leitao,
  • Pedro Dinis Gaspar,
  • Cristina Fael,
  • Isabel Falorca,
  • Wael Khairy,
  • Nadya Wahid,
  • Hicham El Yousfi,
  • Bassou Bouazzama and
  • Joseph Cutajar
  • + 7 authors

19 April 2023

Water security is a hot topic all over the world, due to global warming, climate change, natural calamities such as droughts and floods, overuse of water, and other factors. Water issues have been scientifically investigated from several perspectives...

  • Article
  • Open Access
921 Views
19 Pages

Operating Point Control System in Single-Phase Motor Pump Sets Used in Irrigation Systems: Development and Evaluation

  • Angelo Tiago Azevedo,
  • Marinaldo Ferreira Pinto,
  • Marcus Vinicius Morais Oliveira,
  • Alexandre de Melo Pereira and
  • Daniel Fonseca de Carvalho

Fixed irrigation systems often experience uneven water pressure across different sections, making it challenging to irrigate all areas efficiently without wasting energy. This issue is particularly evident when using low-power, single-phase motors. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,623 Views
10 Pages

1 December 2011

An appropriate design of a drip irrigation system in order to increase the uniformity of water distribution with a high efficiency is of importance. The first step for the design is the determination of suitable length of laterals. In order to do thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,785 Views
15 Pages

Study on Regulation Mechanism of Tomato Root Growth in Greenhouse under Cycle Aerated Subsurface Drip Irrigation

  • Qian Zhang,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Yunpeng Deng,
  • Chitao Sun,
  • Xiaoxu Tian,
  • Bingcheng Si,
  • Bo Li,
  • Xiaohong Guo,
  • Fusheng Liu and
  • Zhenhua Zhang

24 October 2022

Aerobic irrigation can effectively improve the oxygen environment in the root zone, and enhance crop quality and yield. However, how aerobic irrigation regulates root growth has not been elucidated. In this study, tomato plants were irrigated with th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,149 Views
19 Pages

28 July 2021

Water resources are the key factors affecting the sustainable development of inland river irrigation districts. The establishment of a water resources management model is helpful to realize the coordinated development of water, society, and ecology....

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,682 Views
29 Pages

Progress and Hotspot Analysis of Bibliometric-Based Research on Agricultural Irrigation Patterns on Non-Point Pollution

  • Shikai Gao,
  • Xiaoyuan Zhang,
  • Songlin Wang,
  • Yuliang Fu,
  • Weiheng Li,
  • Yuanzhi Dong,
  • Hongzhuo Yuan,
  • Yanbin Li and
  • Na Jiao

4 November 2024

With the constant advancement of irrigation technology and the continuous expansion of irrigation areas, non-point source pollution (NPS) caused by agricultural activities has posed a persistent threat to ecosystems and biological safety. Against thi...

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