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Management of Climate Induced Drought and Water Scarcity in EgyptUpper Egypt: Management of High Water Consumption Crops by Intensification

Management of Climate Induced Drought and Water Scarcity in Egypt: Upper Egypt: Management of... [Upper Egypt is characterized by mild winters and hot summers, which leads to high water consumption by the cultivated crops. Sugarcane plantation is prevailing, in addition to field and vegetable crops. It is expected that climate change will affect Upper Egypt more than the Nile Delta. The objective of this chapter was to quantify the effect of using management package include precise land leveling, cultivation on raised beds, changing crops sequence from two crops per year to three crops per year and implementing different intercropping systems on the required water to cultivate crops in Sohag governorate as a representative of Upper Egypt region in the present time and under climate change in 2030. Our results revealed that the percentage of increase in water requirements in 2030 will depend on crop growing season (winter or summer), growing season length (short or long), sowing date (early, regular or late) and the morphological characteristics of the crop. Regarding to sugarcane, precise land leveling can be implemented and intercropping summer and winter crops with spring and fall sugarcane. Under climate change, sugarcane water requirements will increase by 12 %. Changing crops sequence to three crops can be implemented when using the management package under current climate. However, it will consumed large amount of water in 2030. Furthermore, intercropping can save large amount of water under current climate and still can be implemented under climate change in 2030 and save some of the applied water.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Management of Climate Induced Drought and Water Scarcity in EgyptUpper Egypt: Management of High Water Consumption Crops by Intensification

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Author(s) 2016
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978-3-319-33659-6
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63 –76
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10.1007/978-3-319-33660-2_5
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Abstract

[Upper Egypt is characterized by mild winters and hot summers, which leads to high water consumption by the cultivated crops. Sugarcane plantation is prevailing, in addition to field and vegetable crops. It is expected that climate change will affect Upper Egypt more than the Nile Delta. The objective of this chapter was to quantify the effect of using management package include precise land leveling, cultivation on raised beds, changing crops sequence from two crops per year to three crops per year and implementing different intercropping systems on the required water to cultivate crops in Sohag governorate as a representative of Upper Egypt region in the present time and under climate change in 2030. Our results revealed that the percentage of increase in water requirements in 2030 will depend on crop growing season (winter or summer), growing season length (short or long), sowing date (early, regular or late) and the morphological characteristics of the crop. Regarding to sugarcane, precise land leveling can be implemented and intercropping summer and winter crops with spring and fall sugarcane. Under climate change, sugarcane water requirements will increase by 12 %. Changing crops sequence to three crops can be implemented when using the management package under current climate. However, it will consumed large amount of water in 2030. Furthermore, intercropping can save large amount of water under current climate and still can be implemented under climate change in 2030 and save some of the applied water.]

Published: May 15, 2016

Keywords: Fall and spring sugarcane; Intercropping on sugarcane; Percentage of increase in water requirements under climate change and management package

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