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Management of Climate Induced Drought and Water Scarcity in EgyptGeneral Conclusion

Management of Climate Induced Drought and Water Scarcity in Egypt: General Conclusion [Climate induced drought and water scarcity poses as massive risks on food security in Egypt, where there is a gap between production and consumption in many crops. However, cultivation of new areas outside the Nile Delta and valley is expensive. Furthermore, implementing breeding programs to produce new high yielding varieties need long period of time and it is also expensive. Therefore, unconventional procedures are needed to increase crops productivity, manage irrigation water more efficiently and increase national crops production in short time. Management of rain fed agriculture in Egypt need to adapt very innovative approaches to reduce its vulnerability. We suggested four practices to face drought stress occurrence in rain fed area in Egypt: application of supplementary irrigation and manure, as well as using crop rotation and interplanting. These practices are expected to be effective under climate change conditions. Managing irrigation water more efficiently through implementing precise land leveling and cultivation on raised beds, can increase crops productivity by 15 % and save on the applied water by 25 %. Our assessment indicated that the saved water under suggested management package was enough to irrigate a third crop per year. Furthermore, intercropping can also help in solving food insecurity problem through maximizing land and water productivity. Even though high-consuming water crops such as, rice and sugarcane are prevailing in Egypt, the suggested crops structures and management practices proved to use its applied irrigation water more efficiently. Furthermore, using crop rotation in salt-affected soils can improve soil structure and reduces soil degradation. Inclusion of legume crops in a rotation implemented in salt-affected soil improves soil fertility more than the application of farm yard manure due to improvement in organic matter and physical conditions of the soil.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Management of Climate Induced Drought and Water Scarcity in EgyptGeneral Conclusion

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Author(s) 2016
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10.1007/978-3-319-33660-2_7
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[Climate induced drought and water scarcity poses as massive risks on food security in Egypt, where there is a gap between production and consumption in many crops. However, cultivation of new areas outside the Nile Delta and valley is expensive. Furthermore, implementing breeding programs to produce new high yielding varieties need long period of time and it is also expensive. Therefore, unconventional procedures are needed to increase crops productivity, manage irrigation water more efficiently and increase national crops production in short time. Management of rain fed agriculture in Egypt need to adapt very innovative approaches to reduce its vulnerability. We suggested four practices to face drought stress occurrence in rain fed area in Egypt: application of supplementary irrigation and manure, as well as using crop rotation and interplanting. These practices are expected to be effective under climate change conditions. Managing irrigation water more efficiently through implementing precise land leveling and cultivation on raised beds, can increase crops productivity by 15 % and save on the applied water by 25 %. Our assessment indicated that the saved water under suggested management package was enough to irrigate a third crop per year. Furthermore, intercropping can also help in solving food insecurity problem through maximizing land and water productivity. Even though high-consuming water crops such as, rice and sugarcane are prevailing in Egypt, the suggested crops structures and management practices proved to use its applied irrigation water more efficiently. Furthermore, using crop rotation in salt-affected soils can improve soil structure and reduces soil degradation. Inclusion of legume crops in a rotation implemented in salt-affected soil improves soil fertility more than the application of farm yard manure due to improvement in organic matter and physical conditions of the soil.]

Published: May 15, 2016

Keywords: Drought; Water scarcity; Reduction of food insecurity

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