Irrigated agriculture produces about 40% of all food and fiber on about 16% of all cropped land. Low level of performance can be identified at any level and stage of irrigation systems. Improving irrigation performance to ...

Irrigation enhances agricultural production, improves the food supply and income of rural population in Ethiopia. From this important viewpoint irrigation projects were widely studied, planned and implemented throughout ...

A systematic assessment of water potential of a country is vital in engineering planning, environment, impact assessment, water balance calculation and utilizing water source in a sustainable manner. But one of the challenge ...

Sorghum plays a very important role in human nutrition especially in developing countries like Ethiopia. Sorghum has the added advantage of being inherently gluten-free and has been demonstrated to be safe for people with ...

This work focuses on evaluating a simple on-farm water optimization technology called Wetting Front Detector (WFD). The work compared WFD against computer based tools to estimate Crop Water Requirement (CWR) and subsequent ...

This study attempted to evaluate the effects of alternative furrow irrigation (AFI), fixed furrow irrigation (FFI) and conventional furrow irrigation (CFI) systems on crop yield and water use efficiencies. The general ...

Accelerated soil erosion and sedimentation is a serious concern worldwide problem and it is difficult to assess its economic and environmental impacts accurately. The problem of sedimentation is clearly felt in the irrigation ...

This research was conducted to introduce the concept of evaluating water saving, yield and water productivity of potato (solanum tuberosum l.) by using wetting front detector and different levels of fertilizer application ...

The need to use water efficiently and effectively is necessary to optimize maximum returns and conserve water resources due to the increasing demand of irrigation water. This can only be achieved through effective design, ...