<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Soil Water Availability in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and in Sri Lanka: Natural Resource Management Program Report No. 3\r\n\r\n\r\n"^^ . "Cultivation of legumes, which used to be an important component of the cropping systems in South Asia, has been ignored by farmers growing\r\nrice and/or wheat crops, or relegated to marginal lands in recent years. This bulletin contends that greater cultivation of legumes for grain,\r\nforage or as green manure in rice and wheat systems can help maintain sustainability of these systems and achieve a required level of crop\r\ndiversification. As legumes are normally grown rainfed, soil water availability will be a major determinant of their success or otherwise. This\r\nbulletin presents temporal and spatial soil water availability scenarios in order to assess the scope for greater inclusion of legumes in the\r\npredominantly rice or wheat-based cropping systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan and for rice-based\r\ncropping systems in Sri Lanka. This has been achieved through the application of a water balance model ‘WATBAL’ and making use of\r\ngeographic information systems (GIS) to display and analyze month-wise maps of various indices of soil water availability, and determine\r\nlength of growing season. The scenarios indicate considerable spatial and temporal variability with respect to rainfall and moisture indices\r\nvarying from more favorable to less favorable. The water availability scenarios presented in this bulletin are generic in nature and can also be\r\nused to assess other rainfed crops besides legumes and refine irrigation scheduling for irrigated crops. These scenarios are based on monthly\r\ninput of climatic data and therefore could be improved further using daily or weekly climatic data for the target regions.\r\n"^^ . "2001" . . . "International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics "^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "C"^^ . "Johansen"^^ . "C Johansen"^^ . . "M"^^ . "Moinuddin"^^ . "M Moinuddin"^^ . . "A M"^^ . "Haqqani"^^ . "A M Haqqani"^^ . . "M"^^ . "Irshad Ahmed"^^ . "M Irshad Ahmed"^^ . . "F T"^^ . "Bantilan"^^ . "F T Bantilan"^^ . . "M S"^^ . "Nizamuddin"^^ . "M S Nizamuddin"^^ . . "Y S"^^ . "Chauhan"^^ . "Y S Chauhan"^^ . . "M M"^^ . "Rahman"^^ . "M M Rahman"^^ . . "R"^^ . "Padmaja"^^ . "R Padmaja"^^ . . . . . . "Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Soil Water Availability in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and in Sri Lanka: Natural Resource Management Program Report No. 3\r\n\r\n\r\n (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "481-2001.pdf"^^ . . . "Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Soil Water Availability in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and in Sri Lanka: Natural Resource Management Program Report No. 3\r\n\r\n\r\n (Image (JPEG))"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Soil Water Availability in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and in Sri Lanka: Natural Resource Management Program Report No. 3\r\n\r\n\r\n (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #3686 \n\nSpatial and Temporal Distribution of Soil Water Availability in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and in Sri Lanka: Natural Resource Management Program Report No. 3 \n \n \n\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Food Legumes"@en . . . "Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics"@en . .