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Water Harvesting: Importance, Its Techniques
Rainwater harvesting, in its broadest sense, is a technology used for collecting and storing rainwater for human use from rooftops, land surfaces, or...
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Water Harvesting Technologies for Sustainable Crop Production in African Smallholder Farming Systems
Moisture stress is one of the key constraints that negatively affects sustainable crop production in many smallholder farming systems across Africa....
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Rain water harvesting, agroforestry and goat based intensification for livelihood resilience in drought prone rainfed smallholder farming system: a case for semi-arid tropics
Rainfed areas are the home of millions of resource poor farmers whose livelihood is under continuous threat due to frequent droughts. Assuring double...
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The structural basis for light acclimation in phycobilisome light harvesting systems systems in Porphyridium purpureum
Photosynthetic organisms adapt to changing light conditions by manipulating their light harvesting complexes. Biophysical, biochemical, physiological...
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A Systematic Framework for Studying Two Sugarcane Harvesting Systems Based on National Policy Implementation in Sri Lanka
Owing to the vast complexity of the Sri Lankan sugar sector, immediate implementations of novel research findings, such as those concerning cane and...
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Mechanical Harvesting
Mechanical harvest of tree fruit and grapes involves a number of nearly endless, as well as highly variable, factors and challenges, much in part due...
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High-yield, green and scalable methods for producing MOF-303 for water harvesting from desert air
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are excellent candidates for water harvesting from desert air. MOF-303 (Al(OH)(PZDC), where PZDC is 1- H -pyrazole-3,5-d...
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Role of Water Harvesting and Supplemental Irrigation in Enhancing Agriculture Productivity of Dryland under Climate Change
Water resources availability for agriculture use has decreased in recent past due to competition from various water sectors. Dryland agriculture...
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Integration of ridge and furrow rainwater harvesting systems and soil amendments improve crop yield under semi-arid conditions
Low crop productivity due to prolonged droughts, inappropriate water saving practices, low soil fertility and soil erosion is a major threat to food...
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Biochar amendments make the harvesting of crop residue for bioenergy production sustainable
The Pyrolysis-Biochar-Bioenergy Platform (PBBP) has the potential to be developed into a new economically-viable industry that helps mitigate climate...
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The effects of contour-based rainwater harvesting and integrated nutrient management on maize yields in semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe
In the smallholder farming areas located in semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe, low and unreliable rainfall distribution and poor soil fertility are the...
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Improving Water Productivity for Transforming Agri-food Systems
This paper finds that many rainfed districts in India, defined as those with low access to irrigation, have the potential to harvest water and...
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Water
Water forms the backbone for all future endeavors to achieve food security for ever-increasing population of our country. In the present context,...
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Rainwater Harvesting Technologies and Soil Moisture Conservation in Marginalised Semi-Arid Soils of Southern Africa
Rain-fed crop production by smallholder farmers in arid and semi-arid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is highly vulnerable to the effects of...
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A point-in-time inventory of chikanda orchids within a wild harvesting wetland area in Mwinilunga, Zambia: implications for conservation
Despite continued wild harvesting, there is limited data that provides estimates on the availability of African edible orchids as a resource, and...
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Effect of different Hydrilla verticillata harvesting intensities on Vallisneria natans: Implications for restoring and managing submerged macrophytes
Background and aimsHarvesting can regulate the overgrowth of submerged macrophytes and affect interspecific competition. However, the effects of...
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Changes in water stress indicators and antioxidant systems in chilli by chemical seed priming under water stress condition
One of the most significant abiotic stresses impacting agricultural productivity is water stress. Plant responses to water stress and its survival...
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Advances on Harvesting and Extraction Systems in Microalgal Biorefinery
Microalgae being the global prominent source for development are proved by its bioproducts that have brought a great change into it. The high cost of...
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Water Management and Water Use Efficiency in Agriculture
India which has 17% of the world’s population, 4% of the world’s water resources and 2.6% of the land area (MoWR, National Water Policy, Ministry of...
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Driving mechanisms of productivity stability vary with selective harvesting intensities in a mixed broad-leaved Korean pine forest
Key messageWe found that the stabilizing mechanisms for forest productivity varied across harvesting intensities in a mixed broad-leaved Korean pine...
