Abousrie Farag

• Doctor of Bio-system and Agricultural Engineering
• Professor (Associate) at Benha University

The aim of this study is to construct and validate an expert system to predict the adaptation of irrigation technologies, water-saving strategies, and monitoring tools by small-scale farmers in Egypt. The research investigates the impact of economic, educational, environmental, and social factors on adaptation rates. To build the expert system, ext...

In the Mediterranean area, agriculture is subject to numerous demands caused by the interplay of climate change, population growth, changing food production patterns and the increasing need for nature conservation measures, enforcing an efficient usage of resources and the creation of resilient production systems. To ensure a more sustainable water...

The objective of this study was to analyze the hydraulic performance of low-pressure drip irrigation system on emitter discharge, coefficient of variation, emission uniformity and friction losses. Therefore, a laboratory and field experiments were conducted to assess the hydraulic performance of three drip lateral types [Gr (4 Lh-1 /30cm), Flat-tap...

Food and water consider the key to life. The aim of this study is to increase water productivity and enhancing the quality of the orange crop (Citrus sinensis Osbeck L.). To a chive that aim, four irrigation systems (conventional surface irrigation (SI), furrow irrigation (FI), surface drip irrigation (SDI) and subsurface drip irrigation (SSDI) und...

A field study was conducted in 2017-2018 to evaluate the effect of deficit irrigation, air injection and nitrogen fertilization on yield and water productivity of carrot under subsurface drip irrigation system. Experimental treatments were three levels ofdeficit irrigation (60%, 80% and 100%) of full crop water requirements and three types of nitro...

The scarcity of water in Egypt need for hard work to solve it. One of the best solutions is good management of limited water, therefore, this paper aims to provide farmers and decision-makers with a new accurate and cheap technique for water management. The experimental work was carried out in the farm of Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University (3...

The objective of this study was to monitor and assess environmental impacts of reclaimed wastewater (RW), used for irrigation of vegetable crops, on soil, crop quality and irrigation equipment. During 2013, effluents of a horizontal sub-surface flow constructed treatment wetland (TW) system, used for tertiary treatment of sanitary wastewater from a...

This research aimed to test and calibrate some water flow measurement devices, which were appropriate for on-farm management in Egypt. To fulfil this purpose three of the conventional water-flow measurement devices (v-notch, rectangular weir and cutthroat flume) were calibrated in the Laboratory of Hydraulics Research Institute in Qanater City (Egy...