Farmers Try to Improve Their Irrigation Practices by Using Daily Irrigation Recommendations—The Vipava Valley Case, Slovenia
| Autor: | Luka Honzak, Urša Pečan, Majda Černič-Istenič, Špela Železnikar, Rozalija Cvejić, Marina Pintar |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Irrigation
irrigation-decision support system media_common.quotation_subject 0208 environmental biotechnology Climate change 02 engineering and technology namakanje irrigation scheduling lcsh:Agriculture Multidisciplinary approach udc:631 načrtovanje namakanja Environmental planning media_common Consumption (economics) business.industry Irrigation scheduling lcsh:S 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences svetovanje 020801 environmental engineering monitoring climate change Agriculture klimatske spremembe 040103 agronomy & agriculture podpora pri odločanju 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Support system Business Psychological resilience Agronomy and Crop Science |
| Zdroj: | Agronomy, Vol 10, Iss 1238, p 1238 (2020) Agronomy, vol. 10, no. 9, 1238, 2020. Agronomy Volume 10 Issue 9 |
| ISSN: | 2073-4395 |
| Popis: | Based on the latest climate change projections for the 21st century, high exposure to climate change is expected in Vipava Valley, Slovenia&rsquo s sub-Mediterranean agricultural area. An irrigation-decision support system was developed and implemented on 35 farms in the period of 2016&ndash 2020 to increase agricultural climate-change resilience. Farmers have shifted from irrigation scheduling based on experience and assumptions to irrigation scheduling based on real-time soil-water monitoring to partially implement irrigation based on irrigation-decision support systems. Simulations show that if farmers continue to practice justified irrigation applications and gradually transition to replenishing soil water reservoir content to 85%, they will achieve a 25% reduction in total irrigation-volume consumption, a 24% reduction in energy requirements and a 24% reduction in CO2 emissions. Future agricultural innovation policies should extend actions beyond the financial to those facilitating the establishment of multidisciplinary agricultural innovation teams with corresponding infrastructures to better enable the mutual exchange of knowledge, learning and development of a transparent institutional framework. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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