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application of deficit irrigation to Egyptian clover, sugar beet, onion, and tomato to
cultivate new area with wheat. Under all alternatives, self-sufficiency ratio and
water productivity were calculated.
In Chap. 7, a review of all the previous climate change studies in Egypt on water
resources, crops production, evapotranspiration, seasonal crop coefficients, water
consumptive use and water requirements of crops, cultivated soils and areas, suitability of growing area to be cultivated with a certain crop, and food gaps using 67
papers found on the Internet to cover these items is presented.
Chapter 8 assessed the effect of climate change in 2030 on wheat cultivated area
and total production under five production alternatives, namely, traditional cultivation, raised beds cultivation, application of deficit irrigation to wheat grown on
raised beds, implementing wheat intercropping systems, and using the saved irrigation water from other winter crops to cultivate new lands with wheat. Our aim was
to produce more wheat seeds to increase its self-sufficiency.
We spent about 14 months to put this book in its final format. I hope this book
will help researchers and policy-makers in their future planning and to be a base for
more research to provide more knowledge.
Giza, Egypt
Samiha Ouda
Abd El-Hafeez Zohry
Tahany Noreldin
March 10, 2019
Preface
application of deficit irrigation to Egyptian clover, sugar beet, onion, and tomato to
cultivate new area with wheat. Under all alternatives, self-sufficiency ratio and
water productivity were calculated.
In Chap. 7, a review of all the previous climate change studies in Egypt on water
resources, crops production, evapotranspiration, seasonal crop coefficients, water
consumptive use and water requirements of crops, cultivated soils and areas, suitability of growing area to be cultivated with a certain crop, and food gaps using 67
papers found on the Internet to cover these items is presented.
Chapter 8 assessed the effect of climate change in 2030 on wheat cultivated area
and total production under five production alternatives, namely, traditional cultivation, raised beds cultivation, application of deficit irrigation to wheat grown on
raised beds, implementing wheat intercropping systems, and using the saved irrigation water from other winter crops to cultivate new lands with wheat. Our aim was
to produce more wheat seeds to increase its self-sufficiency.
We spent about 14 months to put this book in its final format. I hope this book
will help researchers and policy-makers in their future planning and to be a base for
more research to provide more knowledge.
Giza, Egypt
Samiha Ouda
Abd El-Hafeez Zohry
Tahany Noreldin
March 10, 2019
Preface