Land Management for Optimizing Crop Yields in Semiarid Eritrea - Couverture souple

Tripathi, Ramesh

 
9783659854910: Land Management for Optimizing Crop Yields in Semiarid Eritrea
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3659854913 ISBN 13 : 9783659854910
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

The book presents results of successful projects completed at Hamelmalo Agricultural College, Eritrea, with a mission to ensure zero runoff from agricultural lands and harvest at least part of the runoff from non-agricultural lands in the watershed for crop use. As output of the mission, rainfed sorghum yields increased from <0.6 to > 2.4 t ha-1 and irrigated yields to >4 t ha-1 by one irrigation and to >5 t ha-1 by two irrigations. Rainfed yields on sloping lands increased to 1.7 t ha-1 on 35% slope, 2.7 t ha-1 on 25% slope and 3.8 t ha-1 on 5% slope through adoption of bed-furrow technology. Rice yields were >2 - 4 t ha-1 under runoff farming and irrigated conditions. Wheat yields in Asmara were >5.6 t ha-1. First 4 chapters deal with situation analysis in terms of knowledge gap and available resources. Next 5 chapters deal with different watersheds, their development technology and expansion on farmers’ fields. The remaining chapters deal with crop production technology development involving students and farmers. Each chapter is written in a professional manner for use by policy makers, students, researchers, teachers and agricultural extension workers in semiarid regions.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The book presents results of successful projects completed at Hamelmalo Agricultural College, Eritrea, with a mission to ensure zero runoff from agricultural lands and harvest at least part of the runoff from non-agricultural lands in the watershed for crop use. As output of the mission, rainfed sorghum yields increased from <0.6 to > 2.4 t ha-1 and irrigated yields to >4 t ha-1 by one irrigation and to >5 t ha-1 by two irrigations. Rainfed yields on sloping lands increased to 1.7 t ha-1 on 35% slope, 2.7 t ha-1 on 25% slope and 3.8 t ha-1 on 5% slope through adoption of bed-furrow technology. Rice yields were >2 - 4 t ha-1 under runoff farming and irrigated conditions. Wheat yields in Asmara were >5.6 t ha-1. First 4 chapters deal with situation analysis in terms of knowledge gap and available resources. Next 5 chapters deal with different watersheds, their development technology and expansion on farmers’ fields. The remaining chapters deal with crop production technology development involving students and farmers. Each chapter is written in a professional manner for use by policy makers, students, researchers, teachers and agricultural extension workers in semiarid regions.

Biographie de l'auteur

Professor R.P. Tripathi worked during 1972-2005 at G.B.Pant Univ Agri & Tech Pantnagar, India. He developed lysimeters for measuring crop ET and published books on Soil Physics and Soil Erosion and Conservation and >110 research papers. In Eritrea, he was Professor during 2005-15 and did significant research on Watershed Development and management.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659854913
ISBN 13 
9783659854910
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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