Innovations in Dryland Agriculture
89 11 Investment in Water Harvesting For developing countries alone, an estimated $103 billion per year is needed to finance wat ...
90 trees over 5000 Feddans (2.5 Feddans equals 1 ha) and conserving 10,000 Feddans of soil. The overall beneficiaries of the pro ...
91 types of systems may need technical assistance and financial support to meet the capital investment cost. This could be suppo ...
92 supported by education, technical exchanges and capacity building efforts which are institutionalized to assists countries wh ...
93 Al Ali Y, Touma J, Zante P, Nasri S, Albergel J (2008) Water and sediment balances of a contour bench terracing system in a s ...
94 Fleskens L, Stroosnijder L, Ouessar M, Graaff JD (2005) Evaluation of the on-site impact of water harvesting in southern Tuni ...
95 Lasage R, Aerts JCJH, Mutiso G-CM, de Vries AC (2008) Potential for community-based adapta- tions to droughts: Sand dams in K ...
96 Oweis T, Hachum A (2006) Water harvesting and supplemental irrigation for improved water pro- ductivity of dry farming system ...
97 Rockström J (2000) Water resources management in smallholder farms in Eastern and Southern Africa: an overview. Phys Chem Ear ...
98 Wang Q, Zhang E, Li F, Li F (2008) Runoff efficiency and the technique of microwater harvesting with ridges and furrows, for ...
© Springer International Publishing AG 2016 99 M. Farooq, K.H.M. Siddique (eds.), Innovations in Dryland Agriculture, DOI 10.100 ...
100 and competition. While there is a diversity of soil types across the dryland crop production areas, characteristically soils ...
101 The increasing need to improve soil structure, retain nutrients, and conserve soil moisture will continue to drive the wides ...
102 achieved through the use of non-selective herbicides applied as whole paddock treatments. Frequently though summer rainfall ...
103 2.2 Pre-seeding Weed Control Non-selective herbicides. The introduction of non-selective herbicides, paraquat/ diquat and gl ...
104 dryland environments incorporation is most reliably achieved through cultivation (Chauhan et al. 2006b). This need for effec ...
105 2.4 Post Emergence Weed Control The early crop establishment phase is the most critical for weed control in annual crops as ...
106 2012a; Powles 1986 ; Tucker and Powles 1991 ), and brome grass (Owen et al. 2012b). Resistance in wild radish and annual rye ...
107 a trade-off between acceptable levels of yield loss and effective weed seed control. A consequence is that there frequently ...
108 et al., 2013 ). With the vast majority of weed seeds exiting in the chaff fraction dur- ing harvest a number of commercially ...
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