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What is supplemental irrigation?

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9y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Supplemental irrigation (SI) can be defined as the addition of small amounts of water to essentially rainfed crops during times when rainfall fails to provide sufficient moisture for normal plant growth, in order to improve and stabilize yields.

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