Conventional Crop Irrigation

Keywords Conventional crop irrigation concerns Halophyte irrigation... 

The irrigation requirements of halophytes should be similar to that of conventional crops, and the irrigation must not damage the soil... 

Another effective adaptation strategy is to improve the conventional gravity-fed flood irrigation practice which includes lining delivery channels, and reducing the amount of water applied and selecting less water consumptive crop varieties. 

Cultural practices such as irrigation are effective in reducing aflatoxin contamination of peanut and com (54), but this practice is not always available or cost effective to growers. Other conventional disease control practices, such as the use of fungicides, are largely ineffective in controlling A. flavus infection of crops when utilized at concentrations that are cost effective as well as environmentally safe. 

The organic treatment had higher microbial biomass C and N, enzyme activity and potentially mineralisable N (Cunapala and Scow 1998) and different microbial community composition phospholipid fatty acid than the conventional treatment (Bossio ef al. 1 998). There were minimal differences between treatments in residue decomposition (Cunapala et al. 1998). Cover crops and higher irrigation frequency in the organic treatment may have contributed to the differences (Cunapala and Scow 1998). 

Adapted from Lipinsky et al. (1984). Growth is under dry-land conditions except for cotton, which is irrigated. The yield for the Chinese tallow tree is one reported yield equivalent to 6270 L/ha of oil plus tallow and is not an average yield from several sources. It is believed that the yield would be substantially less than this in managed dense stands, but still higher than that of conventional oilseed crops. 

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