Soil water storage and drainage under cotton-based cropping systems in a furrow-irrigated Vertisol

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1703-1710

  Hulugalle, N R ^a   Weaver, T B ^a   Finlay, L A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Minimum tillage; Permanent beds; Rotation; Stubble retention; Vertosol

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE MASS BALANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE; COTTON MONOCULTURE; CROP WATER REQUIREMENTS; CROPPING SYSTEMS; DRAINAGE WATER; GROWING SEASON; IN-SITU; IRRIGATION FREQUENCY; IRRIGATION INTERVAL; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MINIMUM TILLAGE; NEUTRON MOISTURE; SOIL WATER STORAGE; SPLIT-PLOT DESIGN; STUBBLE RETENTION; STUBBLE RETENTIONS; TILLAGE SYSTEM; VERTISOLS; VERTOSOL;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COTTON; CROPS; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROLOGY; IRRIGATION; LEACHING; RAIN; ROTATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WATER; WATER CONSERVATION;

CULTIVATION;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COTTON; CROP ROTATION; FURROW IRRIGATION; LEACHING; SOIL WATER; TILLAGE; VERTISOL; WHEAT;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77954534765     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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