Impacts of different irrigation schedules on the water balance components of an onion crop in a semi-arid zone

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 77, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 282-295

  Mermoud, A ^a   Tamini, T D ^a   Yacouba, H ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Groupe EIER ETSHER   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

Irrigation scheduling; Onion; Soil water modeling; Water balance; Water management

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; DRAINAGE; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCHEDULING; SOILS; TRANSPIRATION; WATER;

FARMERS; IRRIGATION TREATMENTS; MECHANISTIC MODELS; WATER BALANCE MODELS;

IRRIGATION;

IRRIGATION; SEMIARID REGION; WATER BUDGET; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DRAINAGE; FARM CROPS; IRRIGATION; SCHEDULING; SOIL; WATER;

ALLIUM CEPA; ARIDA;

EID: 22144480138     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2004.09.033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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