Impact of changing cropping pattern on the regional agricultural water productivity

Journal of Agricultural Science

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 767-778

  Sun, S K ^a,b   Wu, P T ^a,b   Wang, Y B ^a,b   Zhao, X N ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Engineering Research Center for Water Saving Irrigation at Yangling   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CASH CROPPING; FOOD SECURITY; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; NATURAL RESOURCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; HETAO; NEI MONGGOL;

CUCUMIS; HELIANTHUS;

EID: 84929965872     PISSN: 00218596     EISSN: 14695146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021859614000938     Document Type: Article

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