Keywords:
Water in agriculture -- Congresses.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (307 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781483186696
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1817614
Language:
English
Note:
Front Cover -- The Role of Water in Agriculture -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Publications (July, 1969) -- List of Figures -- List of Authors -- CHAPTER I. Definite rainfall measurements and their significance for Agriculture -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER II. Sources of error in Agricultural water budgets -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Identifying the sources of error -- 3. Accidental errors -- 4. Systematic errors -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER III. Evapotranspiration and the water balance in a small clay catchment -- INSTRUMENTATION AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN -- THE APPLICATION OF THE WATER BALANCE EQUATION -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER IV. Variations in sediment production from three East Yorkshire catchments -- Techniques and Methods -- The Hodge Beck Catchment -- The Catchment Drain Catchment -- The Drewton Beck Catchment -- The Hodge Beck Catchment -- The Catchwater Drain Catchment -- Drewton Beck -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER V. Sediment yields from Forested and Agricultural lands -- SEDIMENT YIELDS FROM BRITISH AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTED LANDS -- EVALUATION OF SEDIMENT YIELDS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER VI. The effect of Agricultural treatment on quantity of water available in the soil -- Introduction -- Techniques -- Results -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER VII. The current trends in the use of water for Agriculture -- Uses other than for irrigation Quantities -- Quality of water -- Sources of water -- Future prospects -- Irrigation Development -- Irrigation water requirements -- Quality of water -- The Water Resources Act, 1963 -- Irrigation economics -- Charges for water - River Authorities -- Charges for public water supply -- Future prospects -- REFERENCES.
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CHAPTER VIII. The water requirements of particular stock producing systems -- 1. Water required for drinking -- 2. Water required for production of stock feed -- 3. Water required for cleansing -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER IX. Water resource management and the needs of Agriculture -- Introduction -- Recent trends in water consumption -- The available resources -- Conservation and the Water Resources Act, 1963 -- Water resources and changing technology -- The problem of irrigation -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER X. Limited Irrigation in crop production -- The need for limited irrigation -- Response of crops to limited irrigation -- The mechanism of the responses to altered water supply -- The limitation of water-need -- Results obtained by limited irrigation -- Irrigation in the future -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER XI. The cumulative effects of irrigation on fruit crops -- Soft fruits -- Top fruit -- Discussion -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER XII. Estimates of long-term irrigation needs -- Introduction -- Methods of obtaining estimates of long-term irrigation needs -- Use of the maps -- Discussion of accuracy and possible errors -- Acknowledgment -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER XIII. The flexibility of land-use in relation to the water balance -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER XIV. Edited summary of the discussions:conclusions and implications -- II IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- LIST OF DISCUSSANTS -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
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