Water smart irrigation technologies and management practices for ensuring food security
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Authors
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P. S. Brahmanand
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi 110012
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Bipin Kumar
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi 110012
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V. K. Prajapati
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi 110012
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Monalisha Pramanik
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi 110012
Keywords:
Automated irrigation, Food security, Water smart irrigationAbstract
Water use efficient techniques assume significance in agricultural sector of India in the background of diminishing surface and groundwater resources and climate induced natural disasters. Hence, we need to ensure favourable water regime in the rhizosphere zone of plants through precision water management. There is a need to implement water smart irrigation technologies like micro irrigation, solar enabled automated irrigation, etc. to utilize the available water resources in judicious manner thereby ensuring food security.
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