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Supplemental Irrigation Systems in Cyprus

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Supplemental Irrigation in the Near East and North Africa

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This study was undertaken within the context of ICARDA’s and FAO’s cooperation to develop a regional perspective on the efficacy of supplemental irrigation for increasing and stabilizing field crop production in the Near East and North Africa. Although supplemental irrigation is confined to only a few areas in Cyprus, this technique is known to increase significantly the yields of field crops such as wheat and barley. In one selected district, supplemental irrigation has been practiced by farmers for many centuries from generation to generation by virtue of communal and individual water rights and is interwoven with social tradition and farming practice.

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  1. V. C. Krentos
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  1. The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria

    E. R. Perrier  & A. B. Salkini  & 

  2. The Institute of Irrigation Studies, University of Southampton, England

    C. F. Ward

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Krentos, V.C. (1991). Supplemental Irrigation Systems in Cyprus. In: Perrier, E.R., Salkini, A.B., Ward, C.F. (eds) Supplemental Irrigation in the Near East and North Africa. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3766-9_19

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