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Experimental Assessment of the Sprinkler Application Rate for Steep Sloping Fields |
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| Authors: | F. E. Cisneros Espinosa P. Torres J. Feyen |
| Affiliation: | 1Director, Programa para el Manejo del Aguay del Suelo (ROMAS), Univ. de Cuenca, Casilla 01-01-168, Campus Universitario Av. 12 de Abril s/n, Cuenca, Ecuador. E-mail: fcisnero@ucuenca.edu.ec 2Junior Researcher, Programa para el Manejo del Agua y del Suelo (ROMAS), Univ. de Cuenca, Casilla 01-01-168, Campus Universitario Av. 12 de Abril s/n, Cuenca, Ecuador. E-mail: ptorres@ucuenca.edu.ec 3Professor, Division Soil and Water, Dept. of Land Management and Economics, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 E, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium. E-mail: jan.feyen@biw.kuleuven.be |
| Abstract: | The Programa para el Manejo del Agua y del Suelo (PROMAS) assists the local farming community in introducing new types of locally available irrigation equipment that are both inexpensive and water efficient. Field experiments enabled determining the maximum application rates that cause zero runoff for slopes above 16% for low-cost sprinkler systems. |
| Keywords: | Sprinkler irrigation Slopes Runoff Experimentation |