Compaction caused by machinery traffic can have severe yield consequences. Compaction increases soil strength and reduces soil porosity, which hinders root growth, moisture and nutrient uptake, and plant growth.

IrriSAT is a weather based irrigation water management and benchmarking service

that uses satellite imagery to better determine site specific crop coefficients that are

The National Program for Sustainable Irrigation and its

predecessors have invested in irrigation research for nearly two

decades covering topics at the field, farm and catchment scales; and

Improving the efficiency of water use in agriculture is increasingly essential to maintain the

profitability and sustainability of farms. This involves applying only the minimum necessary

Drip irrigation has been advocated as one way of improving both yield and water use efficiency for irrigated cotton.