An evaluation of the water utilization and grain production of irrigated and rain-fed croplands in China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 529, Issue , 2015, Pages 10-20

  Cao, Xinchun ^a   Wang, Yubao ^a   Wu, Pute ^a   Zhao, Xining ^a   Wang, Juan ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Food security; Green blue water; Irrigation district; Marginal productivity of blue water; Water productivity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; FOOD SUPPLY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); IRRIGATION; RAIN; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

BLUE WATER; CHINA; FOOD SECURITY; IRRIGATION DISTRICTS; WATER PRODUCTIVITY;

PRODUCTIVITY;

RAIN;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CROP PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; RESOURCE SCARCITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CROP PRODUCTION; CROPLAND; FOOD SECURITY; GRAIN; HARVEST; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PRODUCTIVITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER UTILIZATION; CEREAL; CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; EDIBLE GRAIN; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84929600869     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.05.050     Document Type: Article

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