This study reviews soil water balance (SWB) model approaches to determine crop irrigation
requirements and scheduling irrigation adopting the FAO56 method. The K c-ET o approach …

Background Global agriculture is undergoing a phase of agroecological transition. This
transition will be characterized by adoption of agroecological crop** practices and by an …

Increasing the efficiency of on-farm water use requires wise decisions on the irrigation
system, the irrigation strategy and the method to schedule irrigation, among other factors …

In the past few decades, research has developed a multitude of strategies, methods and
technologies to reduce consumptive water use on farms for adaptation to the increasing …

Currently, numerous challenges such as excessive irrigation water consumption, labor
shortage, lower economic and environmental benefits pose serious threats to rice cultivation …

Soil moisture prior to the planting time can influence crop yield through affecting seedling
rooting and emergence, making it an important factor in agronomic management. However …

Flooding rice (Oryza sativa L.) is commonly used in lowlands of Southern Brazil. The
sustainability of this production system is threatened by an increase in the production costs …

The response of two rainfed winter cereal yields (wheat and barley) to drought conditions in
the Iberian Peninsula (IP) was investigated for a long period (1986–2012). Drought hazard …

To improve water use efficiency and productivity, particularly in irrigated areas, reliable
water accounting methodologies are essential, as they provide information on the status and …

Two years of experimental field data on potato (var. Spunta) were used to calibrate and
validate the SIMDualKc model. This model adopts the FAO dual K c approach that provides …