<div dir="ltr">It would be interesting to see how native plant crops might fare in the WP calculation...<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(84,141,212);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000">WATER PRODUCTIVITY - CONCEPT, UTILITY, AND PATHWAYS FOR
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Webinar date/time: </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">May 23; 2:00pm </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">ET<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Duration: </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> hour<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">What will you learn?<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">This webinar introduces the concept of “water productivity (WP)”
in agriculture. It discusses the emergence of WP from older biophysical
concepts of “transpiration efficiency” and “crop water use efficiency,” and
explores its diagnostic utility and major pathways for its improvement in
agricultural settings. While the concept of WP has usefulness in many
agricultural sectors, the focus herein is on its utility in irrigated crop
production systems at scales ranging from field, to farm, irrigation district,
and river-basins. In this context, WP is broadly defined as the ratio of the
net benefits from the crop (i.e., “value” produced) to the amount of water
required to produce those benefits (i.e., unit water used, applied, extracted,
or diverted), and thus the recent global slogans such as “more crop per crop.”<span></span></font></span></p>

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Ph.D., Acting National Water Management Engineer, USDA Natural Resources
Conservation Service, Greensboro, NC<span></span></span></font></p>

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but it is recommended that you join the webinar session 15 minutes prior to the
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