Sustainable agriculture irrigation

Keywords Cultivation Fertilization Indicators Integrated pest management Irrigation Land conservation Organic farming Pest control Sustainable agriculture... 

Wallender WW (2007) Scales, scaling and sustainability of irrigated agriculture. Trans ASABE 50(5) 1733—1738... 

In some agricultural regions, the use of irrigation schemes can be necessary to ensure sufficient water supply. While this plays a minor role in Central Europe, some countries like Israel are highly dependent on irrigation to sustain their agricultural output. 

Ensure environmental sustainability Increased agricultural productivity is enabled through the use of machinery and irrigation, which reduces the need to expand the quantity of land under cultivation, reducing pressure on the ecosystem substitution and improved efficiency reduces erosion, reduced soil fertility and desertification due to traditional fuel use encouragement of better natural resource management and reduced local pollution facilitates rural non-farm-based enterprise and processing of non-timber forest products. 

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