Equivalent cropping area and whole farm water balance approaches to reduce net recharge to shallow saline groundwater from rice based cropping systems

Paddy and Water Environment

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 143-152

  Khan, Shahbaz ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Equivalent cropping area; Groundwater recharge; Optimum cropping mix; Rice based system; Salinity; Shallow water table; SWAGMAN

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO SATIVA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 34548010799     PISSN: 16112490     EISSN: 16112504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10333-007-0078-6     Document Type: Article

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