Date of Award:

5-1967

Document Type:

Dissertation

Degree Name:

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department:

Plants, Soils, and Climate

Department name when degree awarded

Soils and Irrigation

Committee Chair(s)

Gaylen L. Ashcroft

Committee

Gaylen L. Ashcroft

Committee

Sterling A. Taylor

Committee

Keith R. Allred

Committee

Herman H. Wiebe

Abstract

Adoption of supplemental irrigation as a practice in Puerto Rico will be slow. Because irrigation is thought to be needed only occasionally, farmers look at it as an uneconomical operation. Even in the agricultural policy, supplemental irrigation is treated lightly, with limited funds allocated for research in this area.

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