Modelling soil moisture and assessing its impacts on water sharing and crop yield for the wadi laba spate irrigation system, Eritrea

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-56

  Mehari, Abraham ^a   Schultz, Bart ^b   Depeweg, Herman ^c   De Laat, Pieter ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b RIJKSWATERSTAAT   (Netherlands)

^c Land and Water Development   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fair water sharing; Floods; Indigenous systems; Modern systems; Soil moisture; Sorghum and maize yields; Spate irrigation; SWAM

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 39749112515     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: 15310361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.379     Document Type: Article

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