Integrating rainwater harvesting and drip irrigation for water use efficiency improvements in apple orchards of northwest China

Agriculture & Biology

• apples 75%
• arid lands 14%
• arid zones 13%
• case studies 11%
• China 58%
• desertification 18%
• grasses 9%
• infiltration (hydrology) 15%
• irrigation water 90%
• land degradation 18%
• meta-analysis 14%
• methodology 17%
• microirrigation 100%
• mulching 29%
• orchards 79%
• pipes 13%
• plastic film 15%
• poverty 15%
• rain 70%
• root zone drying 19%
• soil water storage 36%
• water 10%
• water use efficiency 86%