Strategies to increase wheat production in the water scarce Karkheh River Basin, Iran

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 124, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-10

  Muthuwatta, L P ^a,b   Rientjes, T H M ^a   Bos, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Crop water productivity; Karkheh; Relative evapotranspiration; Satellite remote sensing; Wheat production

Indexed keywords

CROP WATER CONSUMPTION; CROP WATER PRODUCTIVITY; KARKHEH; LAND CONVERSION; LAND SUITABILITY; MINIMAL EFFECTS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; WHEAT PRODUCTION;

CROPS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REMOTE SENSING; WATER SUPPLY;

WATERSHEDS;

CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER STRESS; WATER USE; WHEAT;

IRAN; KARKHEH BASIN; KHUZESTAN;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84876448822     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2013.03.013     Document Type: Article

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