Soil-Sensors for Real Time Irrigation to Match Crop Water Requirement in Subsurface Drip System Volume 1 - Issue 1

Ravneet Kaur Sidhu¹ and Sidhu HS²*

• ¹Research Scholar, Thapar University, India
• ²Principle Scientist, Borlaug Institute for South Asia, India

Received: November 08, 2019   Published: November 13, 2019

Corresponding author: Sidhu HS, Principle Scientist, Borlaug Institute for South Asia, Ludhiana, India

DOI: 10.32474/JBRS.2019.01.000104

 

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Abstract

Globally, water availability is becoming progressively scarce and by 2025 more than one-third of the world population would face severe water shortage [1,2]. The arid and semi-arid regions of Asia, the Middle-East, and sub-Saharan Africa, which are having a high concentration of the world’s population with a large section living below the poverty line, will be the worst affected areas. While demand for food and other agricultural commodities in these areas is increasing due to fast-growing population, freshwater availability is continuously declining. Per capita availability of renewable freshwater in Near East and North Africa is less than 10 percent of the world average [3].

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