Sentences with phrase «farmers irrigate»

Many of Peru's farmers irrigate their wheat and potatoes with the river water from these disappearing glaciers.

See how local farmers irrigate their fields...

The way farmers irrigate their fields can have a significant impact on human health — and water conservation

As glaciers disappear in the rain shadow of the Himalayas, one man is helping farmers irrigate their fields by storing water in an innovative way

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Along Colorado's Front Range, fourth - generation farmer Kent Peppler said he is fallowing some of his corn fields this year because he can't afford to irrigate the land for the full growing season, in part because deep - pocketed energy companies have driven up the price of water.

«Farmers of tomorrow will know in advance what to sow, when to irrigate, what nutrient and where it is needed, when to harvest, where to sell and at what price,» added Kumar.

At the same time, conditions for livestock and irrigated - crop farmers are expected to remain difficult, with shortages of stored water persisting in many areas.

We have worked within the platforms of the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC), Phase IV - platform for poverty alleviation, and the enablement of poor rice farmers to improve livelihoods and overcome poverty in South and Southeast Asia through the CURE.

Conduct a field experiment to determine water - use efficiency under alternate wetting and drying (AWD) and flood - irrigated conditions in farmers» field at key sites

Through the IRRC - fostered partnerships, NRM technologies that address irrigated rice farmers» needs have been identified and developed through interdisciplinary research and outreach efforts.

They are irrigated and dry land farmers and ranchers, many of whom were practicing organic agricultural techniques before organic certification was even available.

IRRI works with Indian farmers on various crop management options such as resource - conserving technologies, direct seeding, mechanization, and postharvest to streamline production practices for both rainfed and irrigated systems.

However, «farmers will have to adequately feed the soil with enough nutrients, so that the pods are healthy, they also have to get good irrigation, and that is why our Chinese friends are here to find the best possible way of irrigating our farms.»

She blasted farmers in neighboring states for wasting water by flood - irrigating their hayfields.

That means turning down the spigot for farmers who irrigate crops with water from Upper Klamath Lake.

«This is the blessing and curse of farmers in the American Midwest,» says Bill Patzert, a climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «They're blessed with rich farmland and the rivers that irrigate it.

For despite appearances, farmers harvesting irrigated rice are learning how to rid their crops -LSB-...]

Wherever possible, farmers built dams and canals to irrigate cropland; they also built terraced stone walls on hillsides to make new fields; and they drained the swamps outside Tenochtitlán to create raised fields (chinampas), one of the most highly productive agricultural systems of the ancient world.

«What we want to do is provide useful information that either farmers or land investors can use to look into the future and make decisions on where is the right region to expand irrigated agriculture, and where is it more risky.

These threats might be offset if a program of economic incentives can be devised for farmers to maintain flooding of crops, such as alfalfa and irrigated pasture, to the benefit of both farmers and curlews.

And the World Bank reported recently that when land in the northeastern Piaui district was redistributed to small farmers, yields increased by up to 40 per cent on naturally irrigated farms and up to 70 per cent on those that were artificially irrigated.

Farmers that use irrigated water for that and don't have supplies won't grow the crops, he said, and there might not be replacement supplies that are certified organic.

One of its aspects is soil salination, which affects in particular dry regions of Earth, where farmers are forced to irrigate their fields heavily.

IRRI works with Indian farmers on various crop management options such as resource - conserving technologies, direct seeding, mechanization, and postharvest to streamline production practices for both rainfed and irrigated systems.

The latter figure is just about the same amount of water that the government has allocated to the big and small towns across the basin, and to farmers who irrigate globally significant crops of rice, alfalfa, cotton, oranges, grapes, apples and vegetables.

Farmers just must ready the soil, and irrigate the land based on a single crop.

And yet one indispensable element has gotten far less attention, until now: the purity of the water farmers use to irrigate their -LSB-...]

As of 2008, farmers associations managed more than 99 percent of the irrigated area held in public irrigation districts.

We are, for example, working with farmers in the mid-hills on diversification of crop production to show them that instead of making 5,000 rupees from a half hectare of maize in monsoon season they can generate 130,000 rupees from best - practice irrigated vegetable farming during the same period.

The Westlands area of California, the biggest irrigated area, is among those telling farmers to brace for the worst.

The USDA / NASS studies tracked harvested acres without differentiating between irrigated and non-irrigated acreage; it gathered data on planted vs. harvested acres for some crops but not others; it did not account for systems in which «baby vegetable» crops (usually organic) are grown in short rotations on the same plot (such as spinach, lettuce, and carrots) and thus have lower yields; and it omitted some data that would have revealed too much information about individual farmers, in cases where very few growers produce a particular crop.

Since entering» semi-retirement» in 2001, my research has concentrated on the climatic role farmers played during the last several thousand years by clearing land, raising livestock, and irrigating rice paddies, all of which put increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

And where it has happened, most attention was given to the larger scale, capital intensive and fully commercial farmers, especially peri-urban irrigated vegetable production, poultry and dairy production.

Can we realize that the «sacrifice» of giving up meat so that our starving brothers and sisters may be fed, so that farmers» lands may be irrigated, so that trees may continue to grow in the Amazon, so that the rate of global warming and environmental devastation may be checked, so that Mother Earth may continue to have fertile land for growing crops, may we realize that this is a natural choice to be made and not an excruciating sacrifice?

One of the major criticisms of farmers during the current California drought is that so much acreage is being converted to fruit and nut trees (particularly almonds for export), crops that much be irrigated, even during a drought when annual crops can be fallowed.

In Tamil Nadu, a state with more than 62 million people in southern India, wells are going dry almost everywhere and falling water tables have dried up 95 percent of the wells owned by small farmers, reducing the irrigated area in the state by half over the last decade.

What they need is a way to produce green energy for a polluted province and planet and farmers who've been scratching out a living on notoriously poorly irrigated land for decades can finally make a little money by leasing out land on which the clean energy machines will operate.