Fundamentals of Agricultural Drainage Engineering: Principles and Practices of Agricultural Drainage - Softcover

Abarikwu, Okezie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6139951186 ISBN 13: 9786139951185

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

In the 20th century, agricultural land drainage brought about tremendous increase of crop production in Europe and North America. However lack of knowledge of its principles and attendant practices in other areas of the world, resulted in production stagnation and famine. Traditional farming methods and practices are still rampant in Africa, Latin American, India and Asia which constitute over 50% of the world food consuming area where few farmlands are designed with engineering skills and drainage. This, with imminent global population explosion and the impacts of climate change, are threats to global food sufficiency. This book provides the fundamental knowledge into problem soils and crops characteristics in land drainage; response of basic tropical crops to drainage; theory and details of drainage equations; simplified drainage plan where excess water originates from local rainfall, pump systems and practices that could be used for different soils and crops for good farm drainage system to increase crop production. The exercises and project at the end, makes the book useful for students, farm mangers, civil, agricultural engineers and consultants in agricultural practices.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 6139951186
• ISBN 13: 9786139951185
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120