Assessment of the performance of border and furrow irrigation systems and the relationship between performance indicators and system variables

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 353-362

  Feyen, Jan ^a   Zerihun, Dawit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Border and furrow irrigation; Performance indices; Performance terms; System variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032961784     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3774(99)00009-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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