Water Management in Horticultural Crops (1+1)

Definition-Water Use Efficiency (WUE)

• Water use efficiency is defined as the yield of marketable crop produced per unit of water used in evapotranspiration.
  
• It is expressed as WUE=Y/ET
  
Where,
WUE is water use efficiency (Kg/ha-mm);
Y the marketable yield( kg/ha) and
ET is evapotranspiration (mm).