TY - CHAP AU - Pérez D. AU - Ribas F. AU - Olmedilla J.N. PY - 2004/// TI - Influence of irrigation on a traditional rainfed olive orchard (cv Cornicabra) T2 - Mediterranean rainfed agriculture: Strategies for sustainability PB - Zaragoza : CIHEAM VL - 60 T3 - Options Méditerranéennes : Série A. Séminaires Méditerranéens SP - 85-89 A2 - Cantero-Martínez C. A2 - Gabiña D. AB - Irrigation is a way of increasing yield and shoot growth in olive trees. In this work, the influence of irrigation on a traditional rainfed olive orchard (cv Cornicabra) has been studied using olive trees fifty years old, planted at a distance of 12 x 12 m in Almodóvar del Campo (Ciudad Real, Spain). Shoot growth, crown volume, yield, size and humidity of fruit and flesh/pit ratio were measured. Irrigated trees showed an increase in yield and shoot growth only during the last year of the experiment (2002). N1 - Final Seminar of the Regional Action Programme on Rainfed Agriculture (RAP-RAG), 2003/06/02-03, Zaragoza (Spain) UR - http://om.ciheam.org/om/pdf/a60/04600049.pdf ER -