TY - GEN AU - Taha Ismail Hussein Borham AU - Fathy Abd El haleem Gomaa , AU - Mohamed Essam Eldin Shawky , AU - Ragaa Eleawa Sabrah , TI - Impact of Intercropping System and Irrigation Regimes on Water and Land Productivity / PY - 2006/// CY - Cairo : PB - Taha Ismail Hussein Borham , KW - available soil moisture depletion KW - irrigation water requirements KW - water productivity N1 - Thesis (PH.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Agriculture - Department Of Soil Science; Issued also as CD N2 - Two field experiments performed in 2003 and 2004 summer seasons at Agricultural Experimental Station , Faculty of Agriculture , Cairo University , Giza , the study aims at : Determining water requirements for maize , cowpea and intercropped cowpea / maize a) Evaluating the influence of different water regimes on the yield of sole and the intercropping crops b) Calculating the Kc values using some empirical equations , as well , water use efficiency (WUE) of maize , cowpea and intercropped cowpea / maize c) Calculating the land equivalent ratio (LER) for intercropping system and studying the impact of intercropping on land and water productivity ER -