Irrigation Water Production Functions: Report on a Training Course
In Spring 1985, a 3-person team from Utah State University's International Irrigation Center presented a course in agricultural water production functions at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute. This report briefly describes the course's field practice component, which consisted of a 2-day trip to the Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development and to an adjoining agricultural cooperative and irrigation system; reproduces examination questions prepared by two of the team members; and summarizes students' evaluation of the course. Course-derived recommendations for research on nitrogen, water production functions, irrigation efficiencies, and water-fertility-variety interactions and for related training conclude the report. Appendices include lists of guest lecturers and of training materials distributed during the course.