Optimizing irrigation water use in the West Bank, Palestine

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 339-345

  Nazer, Dima W ^a   Tilmant, Amaury ^b   Mimi, Ziad ^c   Siebel, Maarten A ^b   Van der Zaag, Pieter ^b,e   Gijzen, Huub J ^d  

^a Palestine Technical College   (Palestine)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^d Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific Indonesia   (Indonesia)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Cropping patterns; Linear programming; Profit maximization; Water scarcity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SECTOR; AGRICULTURAL WATER USE; AGRICULTURAL ZONES; CROPPING PATTERNS; FRUIT AND VEGETABLES; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; IRRIGATION WATER ALLOCATION; IRRIGATION WATER USE; LAND AVAILABILITY; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING MODELS; PALESTINE; PROFIT MAXIMIZATION; TOTAL VALUES; UNDER WATER; VALUE ADDED; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER SCARCITY;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CROPS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FRUITS; IRRIGATION; LINEARIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CROPPING PRACTICE; FRUIT; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LINEAR PROGRAMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; WATER STRESS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OCCUPIED TERRITORIES; WEST BANK;

CITRUS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 70449670176     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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