Sentences with phrase «irrigate more»

But recently, proposals for new dams have emerged, mostly in the name of improving water supplies strained by urban growth, a desire to irrigate more cropland, or adapting to expected changes in precipitation patterns accompanying climate change.

Heat - you can turn on an air conditioner, drought - you can irrigate more, cyclones - build stronger buildings.

Eventually, no matter how efficient our cultivars, cacao growers will have to figure out how to irrigate more crops instead of relying on fickle rainfall.

By contrast, the «tuntian» irrigation systems — introduced by the Han Dynasty at the Xinjiang communities of Milan and Loulan — used longer, wider and deeper straight - line channels to irrigate much larger areas, with one irrigating more than 12,000 acres.

Not exact matches

The state government has formalised plans for Chinese group Shanghai Zhongfu to develop thousands of hectares of irrigated land in the Kimberley, more than a year after naming the company as its preferred proponent for the land.

The prospects for irrigated crop production and livestock industries are more subdued, with stored water levels still low in some states.

Here is a workable scenario: A corporation owned by both Israeli and Palestinian interests (probably the governments, at least initially) builds one or more very large desalination plants and the necessary pipelines, develops the land to be irrigated, manages the farms on that land, and perhaps develops communities where the farm workers can live.

The alluvial plains are suitable for more crops and garden vegetables, especially when properly irrigated.140

According to one estimate, more than 500,000 acres are lost each year to salinity and waterlogging together, so that today the amount of land ruined by irrigation probably equals all that can be made productive if irrigated.

In one area of India, more than 20 square kilometers of soil have been lost to salinization, while in Pakistan nearly all the irrigated land is affected to some extent.

In an oversupplied wine industry undergoing consolidation, differing prices such as $ 15,000 - to - $ 25,000 per hectare in the Riverland and $ 40,000 - to - $ 60,000 in the more premium McLaren Vale already reflect the view that warm - climate, heavily irrigated areas have less value, says Colliers national director of rural and agribusiness Tim Altschwager.

The PSTOL1 gene is also being tested in rice varieties for the more productive irrigated rice - growing areas and initial results show that the plants grow a better root system and have higher production too.

You should flood irrigate your plants to remove even more fertilizer, assuming that the soil drains well.

Similarly, after 6,000 years of success in a Neolithic subsistence farming culture, we had once again produced more people than we could support, so we were driven to create cities and organize irrigated agriculture.

An even more direct conduit into the environment may be the common practice of irrigating fields with wastewater from livestock lagoons.

Between A.D. 800 and 1500, Angkor's complex canals, roads, irrigated fields, and dense settlements sprawled across more than 1,160 square miles, almost the size of Rhode Island — and far beyond the area protected within the UNESCO World Heritage Site's zone today.

The researchers built large shelters over plots and irrigated them with rainwater so they received either more or less rain than the 100 - year regional average.

«If you are able to irrigate your crops with less water over time,» Ketterhagen said, holding his arms out and letting the silky plumes brush his palms, «I think you could create a more drought - resistant hay crop.»

Spaniards are also questioning the country's drive to grow more and more irrigated crops.

«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.

«Droughts will make human landscapes more attractive to deer, because farms and suburban areas are irrigated and would remain fairly green,» Stoner said.

According to a new assessment from the United Nations University, sodium and magnesium salts can cut crop yields by between 15 and 70 per cent, and affect more than a fifth of the world's irrigated soils.

The loss is more than cosmetic: The Alps supply a crucial source of water for irrigating crops across Europe.

Corn ethanol made from irrigated crops, for example, can use more than 1,000 times more water than oil refining, according to calculations by Sandia National Laboratory.

This leaves plenty of elbowroom for undetected terrestrial planets to huddle close their star, just as Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars do.What's more, the gas giants could irrigate parched inner terrestrial planets with ices from comets and asteroids they perturb.

We normally irrigate via drip - line beneath the top dressing, but about once a week or so, we spray the top dressing to leach some more nutrients into the bed.

More than 90 % of the rice area in China is irrigated, with only relatively small areas being cultivated under rainfed conditions.

«It irrigates the nose,» he explains, which can help flush out mucus and allow you to breathe more easily.

Internet forums are full of people who swear by irrigating their insides with the practice variously known as «colon cleansing», «colon hydrotherapy» and simply «colonics», with feeling feather light, dropping a couple of kilos and being more regular among reported perks.

If all the water used to irrigate the crops fell from the sky as rain or was taken from rivers or underground sources in sustainable amounts we'd be in good shape, but sadly and increasingly, that is not the case (see sidebar for more on this).

Their first four months out here, Cal and Frida had spoken only to each other, and sometimes that was the hardest thing, more trying than the planting or irrigating or the labor it took to build the rudimentary outdoor kitchen.

Crops from bottomland close to a major river are a lot more dependable than irrigated crops from arid and distant terrain.

Among the big three agricultural producers, this more - efficient technology is used on 1 - 3 percent of irrigated land in India and China and on roughly 4 percent in the United States.

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

What could threaten world food security more than the melting of the glaciers that feed the major rivers of Asia during the dry season, the rivers that irrigate the region's rice and wheat fields?

Among these are shifting from conventional tillage to minimum - till and no - till, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of all livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal farmlands.

Anything more would imply unacceptably large impacts on irrigated agriculture.

Among these are the shift to minimum - till and no - till farming, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of all livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal farmlands.

One of these is to exploit the appetite of green things for carbon dioxide: for instance, to irrigate the Australian and Sahara deserts and grow forests that will soak up more carbon.

Along with the hot summer, annual precipitation for 2003 was as much as 12 inches (300 millimeters) below normal, leaving most of Europe in a drought.21 Damages to the agricultural sector were estimated at more than U.S. $ 16 billion (more than $ 13 billion).3, 21 Many areas saw an increase in wildfires, while low water levels in major rivers led to problems ranging from irrigating crops to cooling power plants.4, 21,22

Turbulent mixing of warm air downward likely more common in recent years due to roughness changes, urbanization, sensible heat flux from warm, dark, irrigated vegetation etc..

As more land was irrigated, those thunderstorms became a daily occurrence.

More than 620,000 - square - feet of landscaped area has been irrigated by our three storm management cisterns that harvest up to one million liters of rainwater at a time.

Use the water to increase the amount of irrigated farmland eight times or more.

As she grew older, more and more land was irrigated, and summertime afternoon thunderstorms began to be commonplace.

Let» s start irrigating barren areas of the world with sea water — and lower the T even more.

You are basically arguing that «The Environment» is somehow entirely mutually exclusive from Agriculture and more particularly in your comments to me... irrigated agriculture.

The scope and scale of agricultural emissions are more complex to manage, he said, because they are not measured in a straightforward way but are related to such factors as how the land is irrigated, the planting cycle and the type of crops.

Among these are the shift to minimum - till and no - till farming, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal land.

Salient circumstances at present include a forecast zero flow nomination to the State Water Project, a counter-intuitive assessment that supplies for southern, highly populated counties are far less seriously threatened due to more robust storage, Bay Area delta eco systems threatened with «collapse», and land fallowing in the San Joaquin running to half a million acres (of a CA total of ~ 8 million irrigated, that produce nearly half the nation's fruits and veggies).