Soil health is a term used to describe the general state or quality of soil, and in an
agroecosystem, soil health can be defined as the ability of the soil to respond to agricultural …

The global temperature has been increasing over the years due to climate change that,
directly or indirectly, affects water and energy consumptions in the agriculture sector. The …

Drought is a predominant cause of low yields worldwide. There is an urgent need for more
water efficient crop** systems facing large water consumption of irrigated agriculture and …

Partitioning of evapotranspiration (ET) into evaporation from the soil (E) and transpiration
through the stomata of plants (T) is challenging but important in order to assess biomass …

Evapotranspiration (ET) is the process by which liquid water becomes water vapor and
energetically this accounts for much of incoming solar radiation. If this ET did not occur …

Conservation agriculture, which is based on minimum tillage, permanent soil cover and crop
rotations, has widely been promoted as a practice to maintain or improve soil quality and …

In the most productive area of the Indo-Gangetic Plains in Northwest India where high yields
of rice and wheat are commonplace, a medium-term crop** system trial was conducted in …

Infiltration and evaporation are two important components of soil water balance in semiarid
areas. For local orchards using drip irrigation, rainfall and irrigation events have a profound …

In the extensive rice–wheat system of north-west (NW) India, harvesting is by large
combines and the rice residues are normally burnt after harvest, followed by irrigation and …

The water footprint of a crop (WF) is a common metric for assessing agricultural water
consumption and productivity. To provide an update and methodological enhancement of …