ISHS Acta Horticulturae 278: Symposium on Scheduling of Irrigation for Vegetable Crops under Field Condition
IRRIGATION OF VEGETABLE CROPS IN ITALY, WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO THE BASILICATA REGION |
| Authors: | A. Alvino, E. Tarantino, G. Barbieri |
| Abstract:
Vegetable crops have always been the major agricultural activity in the small and medium-size farms, especially in Southern Italy. Very often they make the best of the available agricultural resources and ensure an adequate income, especially in the small farms (Cupo, 1988). Modern vegetable growing - based on new and sophisticated agronomic techniques - is quite different than in the past and it requires a rational use of its resources and of water in particular. The major objective of any irrigation project is to make the required water available to the crops in view of eliminating, or at least reducing, the unfavourable effects erratic climatic conditions might have on the crops. However, a number of problems have to be solved first. They are related to water supply in a broad sense, as well as to the soil-plant-water relationship, to the choice of the method and system through which water has to be made available to the root system, and to the time to irrigate. An increasing demand of irrigation imposes a rational use of the more and more limited water resources. This can be obtained through the advances in the knowledge about crop water requirements and irrigation technology, and through a widespread technical information to farmers, especially vegetable growing farmers, necessary to obtain high quality yields. | |
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