Reducing Agricultural Water Use: Picking Fruit from the Low Level Branches
New effective measures are needed to reduce agricultural water consumption. The balance of evidence does suggest that near water crisis conditions exist across a sizeable fraction of North and Northwest China. Evidence suggests that fanners have been more proactive than irrigation districts or local government in responding positively to the crisis. The latter have little room to manoeuvre. Rural extension is said to be undergoing reform but emphatic and efficient work is sorely needed in agricultural water management. National government might usefully consider the successful initiatives for rural water use efficiency promoted by the Australian government, as well as using cunguan as rural agents to help implement such initiatives.
agricultural water use water management irrigation district Initiative North and Northwest China
Martin Parkes
Northwest A & F University PO Box 88, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100
国际会议
郑州
英文
1990-2006
2009-10-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）