Freddie R. Lamm (Volume ed.) / James E. Ayars / Francis S. Nakayama

Gebundenes Buch

Microirrigation for Crop Production

Design, Operation, and Management Volume 13

Herausgegeben: Lamm, Freddie R.; Ayars, James E.; Nakayama, Francis S.

Beschreibung

Microirrigation has become the fastest growing segment of the irrigation industry worldwide and has the potential to increase the quality of food supply through improved water fertilizer efficiency. This book is meant to update the text "Trickle Irrigation, Design, Operation and Management". This text offers the most current understanding of the management criteria needed to obtain maximum water and fertilization efficiency.

Autor

Dr Ayars is a retired Research Agricultural Engineer with the USDA-ARS, an irrigation/drainage engineer responsible for developing research on the integrated management of irrigation and drainage systems in arid and semi-arid areas.

Honored by the California Chapter of the American Society of Agronomy, he also received multiple awards including long-term membership in Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta and Alpha Epsilon Honor Societies in Agriculture and Agricultural Engineering. He was awarded the Sir Frederick McMaster's Fellowship by CSIRO in Australia, received the USCID Merriam Award for Improved Irrigation and the Royce J. Tipton Award from the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers for his work.

In his 40 year career, he served the research community and agricultural industry in a wide range of offices and committee assignments including extensive experience working on a United Nations Development Project in Uzbekist

an to improve irrigation and drainage water management.

Produktdetails

• Developments in Agricultural Engineering Volume 13
• Verlag: Elsevier Science / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: S0167-4137(07)X8002-8
• Seitenzahl: 642
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 176mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1328g
• ISBN-13: 9780444506078
• ISBN-10: 0444506071
• Artikelnr.: 22286107