Developing models on water-saving agriculture through rainwater harvesting for supplemental Irrigation in northern China semi-arid region

Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1072-1076

  Sun, Huimin ^a   Cheng, Manjin ^b   Zheng, Dawei ^c   Zhang, Jianxin ^a  

^a INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Traditional Chinese Mongolian Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region   (China)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Developing model; Northern China semi arid region; Rainwater harvesting for supplemental irrigation; Water saving agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGRICULTURE; ARSENIC; DROUGHT; HARVESTING; IRRIGATION; RAINWATER; SANDSTONE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL EROSION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; MONGOLIA; NEI MONGGOL; ZHUNGEER;

RAIN; WATER;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHINA; DESERT CLIMATE; DISASTER; ECONOMICS; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; DESERT CLIMATE; NATURAL DISASTERS; RAIN; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 33746633417     PISSN: 10019332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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