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SDI in the Great Plains​

Plenary Sessions

  1. Promoting Professionalism in Farmer Managed Irrigation Schemes to Improve the Performance of Irrigated Agriculture
  2. Optimizing Crop Production and Crop Water management Under Reduced Water Supply
  3. Gender and Poverty Dimensions of Irrigation Techniques for Technical People
  4. Technological Development of Micro-Irrigation and it's Applications in Developing Countries
  5. First-Order Economizing: Irrigation Technology Adoption and the Farm
  6. Irrigation Sustainability

Parallel Sessions

  1. Irrigation Management
    The Role Of Mesoscale Data Networks In Irrigation Scheduling For Rural Water Resource Management
    Orange Response at Different Percentages of Wetted Soil
    Nitrogen Balances in Trickle Irrigated Sugarcane
    Water Availability and Yield Response to High-Frequency Micro-Irrigation in Sunflowers
    Irrigation Scheduling for Drip Irrigated Potatoes
  2. Economic Feasibility
    Where To Go? A Socio-Economic Analysis Of Smallholder Irrigation Farming in South Africa's Northern Province
    Evaluation of Combined Micro And Surface Irrigation Systems in Sweet Lime Inter-Cropping
    More Crop Per Drop: Considerations for Precision Irrigation In a Basin Context
    Optimal Irrigation Scheduling of Dripper System in the Rain fed Area
    The Economist's Role in an Inter-Disciplinary, Inter-Agency MIP
  3. Appropriate Technology and Developing Irrigation: Gender Social and Training Aspects
    Participation of Men and Women in Smallholder Irrigation: Pitfalls and Rewards
    The Use of Micro-Irrigation to Promote Household Food Security
    Developing Sustainable Small-Scale Farmer Irrigation in Poor Rural Communities: Introduction to
    Guidelines and check lists for Trainers and Developmental Facilitators
    The Role of Treadle Pumps in changing the Working and Economic Environment of Women Irrigators: 
    Some Considerations From Africa With Particular Reference to Zambia
    An Overview of Present Research on Micro-Irrigation for Use in Developing agriculture
    Participation of Men and Women in Smallholder Irrigation: Pitfalls and Rewards
    The Use of Micro-Irrigation to Promote Household Food Security
    Developing Sustainable Small-Scale Farmer Irrigation in Poor Rural Communities: Introduction to Guidelines and check lists for Trainers and Developmental Facilitators
    The Role of Treadle Pumps in changing the Working and Economic Environment of Women Irrigators: Some Considerations From Africa With Particular Reference to Zambia
    An Overview of Present Research on Micro-Irrigation for Use in Developing agriculture
  4. The Soil Environment
    Effect of Alternation Techniques of Irrigation on the Yield of Wheat
    Soil Wetting and Solute Transport in Trickle Irrigation Systems
    A New Way for Small Farm Irrigators to Save Water
    Variations in Wetting Patterns From Trickle Emitters in soils of Different Texture
  5. Environmental Impact
    An Integrated Modeling approach for Irrigation Water Management Using Saline and Non-Saline Water: The Saltmed Method
    Sustainability of High Frequency Irrigation with Gypsiferous Mine Water
    Water Management for controlling Anopheles Mosquitoes in Rice Fields
    Optimization of the use of Saline Irrigation Water for Apricot Trees
  6. Appropriate Technology and Developing Irrigation: Gender Social and Training Aspects
    Drip Irrigation Kits for Small-Holder Farms in Kenya: Experience and a Way Forward
    Enabling Women to Participate in Small-holder Irrigation Development and design: Taking Women's Needs Into Account in Design
    Social and Gender Issues relate to Water Management
    Micro-Irrigation in Africa Beyond 2000
  7. Crop Water Use
    Subsurface Drip Irrigation for Alfalfa in western Kansas
    SDI For Corn Production: A Ten Year Summary of Research
    Water use By Drip Irrigated Late Season Peaches
    Water Use of Drip Irrigated Peach Trees Under Full Irrigation and Regulated Deficit Irrigation
    Seasonal Variation in Transpiration Efficiency of Sultanina Grapevines Under Two Micro irrigation Systems
    Crop Water Use of Onion
  8. Technical Development and Application
    Mobile Drip Irrigation: Alternative to Irrigation With Nozzles
    The Role and Operation of the Advanced Irrigation Test Facilities of ARC-Institute for Agricultural Engineering
    Control of Diagnosis of Micro-Irrigation Systems used on Citrus Farms in the Cap Bon Region in Tunisia
    Evaluation of Hydraulic Characteristics of Various Microsprinklers
    Low Cost Portable Drip for Tobacco in Zimbabwe
    Evaluation of the Appropriateness and Management Requirements of Micro-Irrigation in Small-Scale Farming
  9. Regional/Country Experiences
    Pulse Microirrigation Technology in Russia
    A Decade of Microirrigation Development Maharashtra State of India
    Improved Water Management for Sugarcane Production
    The need to Adapt Drip Systems to Smallholders Conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Micro Irrigation: A World Overview

Poster Session

  1. Estimated Water Content in Widely spaced Micro-Irrigated Crops With a Two Dimensional Water and Energy Balance Model
  2. Efficient Water Use and Water Saving By Micro-Irrigation
  3. Response to Some Apple Trees to Some Irrigation Treatments in New Reclaimed Soils
  4. Modeling of the Nitrate Balance at Catchment Scale Using a Quasi-Two Dimensional Mechanistic Model in Combination With GIS
  5. Effect of Weather Variables on Evaporative Losses in Micro-Irrigation
  6. Response of Tomato Under Drip-Irrigation and Plastic Mulching
  7. Rootstock/Scion Responses to Variable Salinity in Irrigation Water
  8. Response of Cowpea under Mirosprinkler and Surface Methods of Irrigation
  9. Modification of Microclimate and Soil Moisture by Recycled Paper Mulch in Micro Irrigated Fields
  10. Decantation and Filtration of Surface Water for Micro-Irrigation
  11. Water Availability and Yield Response to High-Frequency Micro-Irrigation in Sunflowers
  12. Yield, Water applied and Economics of Drip Irrigated Mango Orchard in India
  13. Response of Biometric Yield of Chilli Under Microsprinkler and Other Methods of Irrigation
  14. Mobile Drip Irrigation: An Alternative to Irrigation With Nozzles

Workshop: Micro-Irrigation in Developing Agriculture - Gender Techniques for Technical people

  1. Pedaling Out of Poverty: Social Impact of a Manual Irrigation Technology in south Asia
  2. Policies Option and Issues For Gender-Balanced Irrigation Development - Discussion Notes