Irrigation Scheduling With Soil Water Balance Against Sensor Feedback: Field Study Over Two Dry Seasons

Authors

  • Kristina Eidukas Department of Irrigation Engineering, Zemaitija Institute of Agro-Informatics, Telsiai, Lithuania Author
  • Ioulia Lampropoulou Centre for Agricultural Hydrology, Serres Centre for Digital Agriculture, Serres, Greece Author
  • Izaak Ittersum Department of Agricultural Instrumentation, Flevoland Institute of Agro-Informatics, Lelystad, Netherlands Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22664744

Keywords:

Irrigation Scheduling With Soil Water Balance Against Sensor Feedback; Agro-informatics; Precision agriculture; Evidence synthesis; On-farm technology

Abstract

Irrigation Scheduling With Soil Water Balance Against Sensor Feedback has moved quickly from a research idea to something a
working farm can actually use, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current evidence for
irrigation scheduling with soil water balance against sensor feedback, covering the methodological, practical, governance and
cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where farms and advisors are still largely working it out for
themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or
blanket avoidance.

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