Crop Water Productivity of Irrigated Teff in a Water Stressed Region

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3115-3125

  Yihun, Yenesew Mengiste ^a   Haile, Abraham Mehari ^a   Schultz, Bart ^a   Erkossa, Teklu ^b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b International Water Management Institute IWMI   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Crop water productivity; Deficit irrigation; Ethiopia; Teff; Water stressed region

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; IRRIGATION; PRODUCTIVITY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; CROP WATER PRODUCTIVITY; DEFICIT IRRIGATION; ETHIOPIA; FIELD EXPERIMENT; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; RESPONSE FACTOR; TEFF;

CROPS;

CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; IRRIGATION; SEEDING; WATER STRESS; YIELD RESPONSE;

ETHIOPIA;

ERAGROSTIS TEF;

EID: 84876977814     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0336-x     Document Type: Article

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