Water harvesting represents a huge problem in many world places where its availability is limited. In particular, agricultural practices can consumes up to the 83% of the overall available fresh water. In this context, the choice of the opportune irrigation system and soil conditioner is pivotal for the sustainability of a production. Here we are facing a challenging issue: how to choose the best combination between two different and hardly related factors? One more time, Design of Experiments can help to solve our problem. In fact, when for exploratory reasons, two factors which include one hard to change (irrigation system) are considered, a special factorial design, named split plot design , can be employed. More detailed information about this topic are available in our last open access paper by clicking here .
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