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The emphasis of irrigation management shall shift from production per unit area to maximizing the production per unit of water consumed (water productivity), since insufficiency of water supply for irrigation will be the norm rather than the exception. Maximization of water-use efficiency (WUE) for higher yields per unit of irrigation water applied under scarce water supplies can be achieved through deficit (or regulated deficit) irrigation. There is a potential to enhance WUE by 1.2 times as compared to normal irrigation practices using 25 % deficit irrigation. This chapter reviews yield responses of major field crops such as cotton, maize, potato, sugar cane, soybean, and wheat to deficit irrigation. Integration of deficit irrigation with subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) and conservation tillage in increasing WUE is also discussed.

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Reddy, P.P. (2016). Deficit Irrigation. In: Sustainable Intensification of Crop Production. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2702-4_16

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