Agricultural Waterlogging, Soil Salinity, Field Irrigation, Plant Growth, Subsurface Drainage, Groundwater Modelling, Surface Runoff, Land Reclamation, and other Crop Production and Water Management Issues in Agriculture

R.J.Oosterbaan

Purpose
The purpose of this web site is to share my experiences with workers in any country on waterlogging in agricultural lands, irrigation induced soil salinization (salination), subsurface drainage for agriculture (horizontal and vertical), reuse of ground-water hydraulics, (geo)hydrology, rainfall and surface runoff relations, reclamation and improvement of waterlogged saline (salty), sodic alkaline, and acid sulphate (sulfate) soils, plant growth, crop production and responses as well as statistical analysis consisting of segmented linear regression and cumulative frequency distributions.
  Environment
The site aims at contributing to environmentally sound water-management for the control of salinity, water-logging and depth of water-table in agricultural land thus enhancing soil conservation and sustainable land use.

History
As a land and watermanagement specialist at the International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement (ILRI), Wageningen, The Netherlands, I have worked since 1965 in almost 30 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, giving training courses, participating in research programs and providing project advice as a consultant. In 2002, I left ILRI to be independent.

  Contact
When you wish to communicate with the author, please use the contact form.
Languages: English and Spanish.
Messages in French, German or Portuguese will be understood but replied in English or Spanish.

 
Software
& models

Articles
& manuals

FAQ's
& answers

Reports
& cases

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What is offered?
                           
 
Experiences are automatic

 

 

 

A consultant learns from others

 

 
Free downloads of software
The site gives free download opportunity of software and models freeware and computer programs (tools I developed because of need in my work).
       The programs relate to statistics (segmented linear regression with break-point, cumulative frequency analysis and recurrence predictions), groundwater flow to subsurface drains (horizontal drainage) and pumped tube-wells (vertical drainage), rainfall-surface runoff relations simulated with a nonlinear reservoir, and agro-hydro-salinity simulation models including ground-water hydraulics in unconfined and semi-confined aquifers.

Free downloads of articles
The site offers free downloading of articles and manuals in the field of waterlogging, agricultural land drainage for soil desalination (desalinization), salty soils, and subsurface drainage for agriculture (horizontal and vertical).
       In addition one can find here supporting papers on the software referring to land reclamation (rehabilitation) of waterlogged land, and the remediation (restoration) of salt affected, saline, soils. The same holds for the models on statistical analysis, segmented linear regression of plant growth, crop production and yield responses, as well as cumulative frequency distributions of hydrologic factors.

Answers to frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions, often on irrigation, soil salinity, alkalinity and acidity (i.e. saline, salty, alkali, alkaline sodic and acid sulphate/sulfate soils), land rehabilitation and remediation are answered on the faq's page with papers and lecture notes.
       Further, one may find here the answers to questions on the selection of land drainage systems in agriculture, on the determination of hydraulic conductivity, on interception drainage, on subsurface drains in sloping land, and on downstream river salinity.

Reports and case studies
A list of some project evaluations and case studies on water-management, agricultural land drainage, irrigation, drainage for salinity control in agriculture for remediation of soil salination (salinisation) can be found on the reports page.
       The same hold for reclamation, rehabilitation, restoration and improvement of salty, saline, alkaline and acid sulphate/sulfate soils

Updates
I intend to update and expand this website regularly and include update reports.

 

Experiences were hammered in

 

 

One depends on many  

 

 

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