what is crop management
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Explanation:
Crop Management. the group of agricultural practices used to improve the growth, development, and yield of agricultural crops. ... Other field practices include crop irrigation and mechanical, biological, and chemical methods of combating weeds, pests, and diseases.
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4.3.2 Crop management
Crop management practices for the safe use of salt-affected soils and saline water primarily consists of growing suitable salt-tolerant crops, managing seedbeds, and grading fields to minimize local accumulation of salts, soil management, improving irrigation efficiency and soil, water, and salinity monitoring for assessing leaching and drainage requirements. Important crop management consideration includes (Ahmed and Malik, 2002):
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Appropriate crop genotypes for satisfactory yield under existing and predicted saline conditions (Toderich et al., 2008).
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Appropriate planting procedures to minimize salinity near the vicinity of seed (Bernstein and Francois, 1973).
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Maintaining soil water at relatively high levels for plant growth (Payero et al., 2009).
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Appropriate soil management such as tillage, ploughing, sanding, and chemical amendments, mineral fertilizers, organic manures, and mulching to improve soil organic matter and increased soil percolation (Ben-Gal et al., 2009).
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An efficient water distribution system and irrigation scheduling (Kruse