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Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture pp 581–587Cite as

Sustaining Irrigated Agriculture in China

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Irrigation in China has been practised for millennia. The Chinese ancient civilization was built on its irrigated agriculture.

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  1. Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydroelectric Power, Research (IWHR), P.O.Box 366, Beijing, 100044, P.R. China

    L. Cai, Y. Qian & D. Xu

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  1. Department of Agricultural Engineering, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    L. S. Pereira

  2. Agricultural Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    R. A. Feddes

  3. Department of Water Resources, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    J. R. Gilley

  4. CEMAGREF, Antony, France

    B. Lesaffre

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Cai, L., Qian, Y., Xu, D. (1996). Sustaining Irrigated Agriculture in China. In: Pereira, L.S., Feddes, R.A., Gilley, J.R., Lesaffre, B. (eds) Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture. NATO ASI Series, vol 312. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8700-6_36

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