Università Degli Studi di Milano hosts a research stay to assess impacts of rice cropping in water fluxes and quality at irrigation district level

As part of PROMEDRICE activities, the Irrigation Engineering and Management Research Group PhD student Sílvia Cufí from Universitat de Girona (UdG) is currently doing a 3 month research stay in Università Degli Studi di Milano (UMIL).

Dr Arianna Facchi from UMIL is supervising her work on the application of the SWAP semidistributed hydrological model at irrigation district scale in the Baix Ter rice area (Girona).

Dr Arianna Facchi and her team have updated the SWAP code to be applied through the QGIS interface in rice agroecosystems (Gilardi et al., 2023, DOI: 10.3390/w15122150). Its application will allow to assess the impacts of rice cropping at irrigation district on water fluxes and quality in order to provide water management recommendations to ensure sustainable rice farming practices.

Fruitful collaboration of Universitat de Girona with Dr Arianna Facchi and her team comes from years ago. Dr Facchi coordinated the previous MEDWATERICE project, which was the seed for the current PROMEDRICE project coordinated by Dr Gerard Arbat from Universitat de Girona, both entities being part of the international consortiums in both projects.