WATER, AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS. REDUCING THE IMPACTS OF WATER APPLICATION HETEROGENEITY ON: NITRATES LEACHING, WATER LOSSES AND ECONOMIC YIELDS

Project Information

NI WA SAVE

Grant agreement ID: FAIR950088

Project closed

Start date 1 March 1996

End date 28 February 1999

Funded under

• Specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of agriculture and fisheries (including agro-industry, food technologies, forestry, aquaculture and rural development), 1994-1998

Total cost € 1 255 700,00

EU contribution € 889 000,00

Coordinated by

C.E.M.A.G.R.E.F. - GROUPEMENT D'AIX-EN-PROVENCE
France

Objective

Background:
The applied irrigation water is poorly controlled in practice with consequences on water losses and nutrient leaching. Improved tools to control the heterogeneity of water applied at field level are necessary. This requires advances at two levels for overhead irrigation systems: a) water transport from sprinkler to soil surface, including climatic perturbations and b) water and nitrates transfer in the soil, to derive losses and crop results.

The objectives are:
The main objective of this project is to develop an integrated mathematical model, that describes at field scale the heterogeneity of irrigation water application and related transfers, and quantifies its consequences on water losses, nitrates leaching and economic yields.

Short description of the project:

To operate this model, extensive scenarios of realistic farmers' irrigation practices under various European conditions will be used. Field experiments and laboratory tests will be made in view of the investigation and validation of the model, which is a combination of mechanistic, empirical and stochastic techniques, designed in a modular framework.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• engineering and technology › civil engineering › water engineering › irrigation
• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture
• natural sciences › mathematics › applied mathematics › mathematical model

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Programme(s)

• FP4-FAIR - Specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of agriculture and fisheries (including agro-industry, food technologies, forestry, aquaculture and rural development), 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 4.1.2 - Agriculture-environment interactions

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

C.E.M.A.G.R.E.F. - GROUPEMENT D'AIX-EN-PROVENCE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: LE THOLONET - B.P. 31 ; 13612 AIX-EN-PROVENCE CEDEX 01 ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (3)

Cranfield University

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Silsoe Campus Wharley End ; MK45 4DT Cranfield
• Total cost: No data

I.N.R.A. - DOMAINE ST. PAUL

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: DOMAINE SAINT-PAUL - SITE AGROPARC ; 84917 AVIGNON
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA-LA MANCHA

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: CTRA. LAS PERAS KM 3 ; 02071 ALBACETE
• Total cost: No data