Some Methods of Water Conservation in Agriculture which may also be Integrated to Achieve Higher Productivity and Quality Ecologically II. Some Methods and Their Physiological Bases of Benefits

Abstract

Plant growth and productivity and water use efficiency (WUE) in terms of physiology and crop productivity are the results of many interrelated and complex factors, some of which are being changed by global warming. The vast majority of plant propagators have limited power of interference and control of these factors at natural conditions, especially under the pressure of cost-profit ratio and environmental concerns. It will be attempted to review some promising methods, their outstanding performances and potentials in terms of productivity and water use efficiency (WUE) within the framework of sustainable agriculture at constantly changing climatic conditions and to attract attention to the potential of integrating some of them for higher water economy and productivity to attract attention to the possible benefits of using artificial intelligence in meta-analytical approaches to the challenging meta-problems, by integrating the prospective advancements obtained by researchers all over the world. In the third section, some prospective ecological approaches to agricultural ecosystems for integral and economic solutions to the growing problems in the era of global warming and population growth. The purpose of the study will be to draw attention to the possibility of alleviation of the growing worldwide problems in agricultural production to some extend by the integration of some methods, techniques deserving higher interest and wider practical applications considering billions of people living in rural areas and depending on their agricultural production, and also the locus of food production.

Keywords

• Plant physiology
• global warming
• ecological agriculture
• water economy

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