Sustainable water management in smallholder irrigation schemes: Understanding the impact of field water management on maize productivity on two irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 29, Issue 15-18 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 1075-1081

  Samakande, I ^a   Senzanje, A ^b   Manzungu, E ^b  

^a Inst of Agricultural Engineering   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DROUGHT; RAIN; WATER CONSERVATION;

CROP PERFORMANCE; CROP PRODUCTIVITY; RAINFALL PATTERNS; SMALLHOLDER IRRIGATION SCHEMES;

IRRIGATION;

IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MAIZE; SMALLHOLDER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DROUGHT; FARM CROPS; IRRIGATION; RAIN; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA; MANICALAND; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 5144225046     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2004.08.009     Document Type: Article

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