PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS IN WATER MANAGEMENT FOR VEGETABLE CROP PRODUCTION IN THE PHILIPPINES

Vegetable production in the Philippines, inspite of its vast fertile lands, has been far below the demand level.
The low per hectare production is attributed mainly to poor cultural practices, limited knowledge about proper water management necessary for raising the tropical vegetable crops and inadequate information about the post-harvest handling.
The paper discusses the water needs, appropriate irrigation methods and drainage requirements for some of the vegetable crops commonly raised in the Philippines.
Where proper control over the available water supply is not possible either due to technical or non-technical (socio-economic, institutional) constraints, the proper choice of the crop(s) to be grown under given soil-water regime and agro-climatic conditions is indicated for more efficient use of arable land for vegetable crop production.
Also, recent findings of the current Philippine research on the rice-based cropping patterns are presented with regard to introducing appropriate vegetable crops by proper root-zone soil-water management.

III International Symposium on Water supply and Irrigation in the open and under Protected Cultivation

Venus S. Sahni, Amando R. Maglinao

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1981.119.41