Major Crops and Water Scarcity in Egypt: Irrigation Water Management under Changing Climate (SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology)

"This book includes multi-disciplinary quantifications of the effect of climate change on water requirements of wheat, maize, rice and sugarcane. Furthermore, it provides on-farm management that faces water scarcity under current situation and under climate change. Changing cultivation method (raised beds instead of furrows or basins) or increasing irrigation application efficiency (sprinkler or drip systems instead of surface irrigation) can reduce the applied water. Irrigated agriculture, although profitable, it endures wasteful use of valuable water resources. Taking into account the risk of climate change, developing countries like Egypt will highly suffer. Furthermore, the effect of intercropping (two crops use the applied water to one of them), and/or using crop rotations (arrange crops to reduce the applied water, increase water productivity and sustain soil fertility) on production and consumed irrigation water by crops were comprehensively analyzed"- - Springer Front Matter....Pages i-xii Evapotranspiration Under Changing Climate....Pages 1-23 Water Requirements for Major Crops....Pages 25-32 Significance of Reduction of Applied Irrigation Water to Wheat Crop....Pages 33-51 Combating Adverse Consequences of Climate Change on Maize Crop....Pages 53-68 High Water-Consuming Crops Under Control: Case of Rice Crop....Pages 69-84 High Water Consuming Crops Under Control: Case of Sugarcane Crop....Pages 85-97 Unconventional Solution to Increase Water and Land Productivity Under Water Scarcity....Pages 99-115 Recommendations to Policy Makers to Face Water Scarcity....Pages 117-126 Including multi-disciplinary quantifications of the effect of climate change on the water requirements of wheat, maize, rice and sugarcane, this text provides on-farm management that faces water scarcity under current situations and under climate change