Session: W4128 Multi-State Project Meeting: Microirrigation: A Sustainable Technology for Crop Intensification and Improved Crop Productivity Oral

Division: Committee Meetings (Society and Other)

Title: W4128 Multi-State Project Meeting: Microirrigation: A Sustainable Technology for Crop Intensification and Improved Crop Productivity Oral

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Format: Non-Society Meetings, Non-Profit Organization Topical Session
Keywords: Crop productivity, Microirrigation and Water management

Session Description: Although microirrigation is widely recognized as the most efficient and environmentally friendly method of irrigation, the US and international land area is still relatively low. Slowly, this is changing as water resources are stretched and competition for those supplies increases, more synergistic combinations of crop production technologies are developed, and the sheer need for food production increases. Microirrigation will play a large role in these highly-productive agricultural systems. Efforts such as described in this project W4128 add to our abilities to intensify crop production with microirrigation resulting in more sustainable systems that have less negative impact on the environment.