**Meet the editor**

Prof. Ondrasek is employed at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture (UZFA), Croatia, and is currently a full professor and head of the Department of Soil Amelioration. His academic and scientific opus is orientated towards sustainable soil and water management in agroecosystems. He coordinates three MSc and two BSc study courses at UZFA, and has been a supervisor of 24

students and four visiting scientists. He has published more than 30 scientific papers, 13 book chapters, and edited one academic book. During his professional career he spent almost three years abroad at eminent Australian, European, and Latin American research and academic institutions and centers of excellence. At the national level he participated in the creation of the national master plan for irrigation (NAPNAV, 2005). He also participated in master plans for irrigation in almost all counties (17/20) and in more than 20 irrigation system projects in Croatia.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Gabrijel Ondrasek

Greco Michele

Ferreira

**Agroecosystem 21**

**Crops in New Zealand 87**

and Xiaodong Ding

Chapter 7 **Water Quality in Irrigated Paddy Systems 105**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Irrigation after Millennia - Still One of**

Chapter 2 **Informational Entropy Approach for Rating Curve Assessment**

Chapter 3 **Irrigation Management Practices and Their Influence on Fruit**

Chapter 4 **Using Smartphone Technologies to Manage Irrigation 37** Timothy Coolong, Luke Miller and George Vellidis

Chapter 5 **Deficit Irrigation in Mediterranean Fruit Trees and Grapevines: Water Stress Indicators and Crop Responses 51**

Chapter 6 **Water Footprint Differences of Producing Cultivars of Selected**

Anabela Fernandes-Silva, Manuel Oliveira, Teresa A. Paço and Isabel

Isaac R. Fandika, Peter D. Kemp, James P. Millner and Davie Horne

Jian Liu, Hongbin Liu, Ruliang Liu, MG Mostofa Amin, Limei Zhai, Haiming Lu, Hongyuan Wang, Xubo Zhang, Yitao Zhang, Ying Zhao

**Water Footprint in Agricultural Crops 1**

**in Rough and Smooth Irrigation Ditch 5**

Gaganpreet Kour and Parshant Bakshi

**the Most Effective Strategies for Sustainable Management of**
