Sentences with word «irrigated»

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 east half (Yellowstone, Big Horn, and Treasure counties) is characterized by river valleys with irrigated crops and by dryland winter wheat production.

The report shows that introduction of Alternative Wetting and Drying in irrigated rice fields could achieve substantial emission reductions by 2020.

The main objective of CORIGAP is to improve food security and gender equity, and alleviate poverty through optimizing productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice production systems.

In a country dependent on irrigated land for 70 percent of its grain, water shortages are fast becoming a security issue.

The study suggests also that irrigation may be shaping the climate in other ways, by adding up to a millimeter per day of extra rain downwind of irrigated areas in Europe and parts of Asia.

SOME of the rivers in Brittany are so polluted with herbicides that glasshouse crops irrigated with river water are being poisoned.

In these valleys, losses from irrigation canals and seepage from irrigated fields constitute a significant fraction of aquifer recharge.

According to Weber, peer - reviewed studies have also indicated that food crops can accumulate uranium when irrigated by water containing high concentrations of it.

Any measures that raise crop yields on irrigated land also raise the productivity of irrigation water.

The researchers note that the basins that will be the most affected generally do not supply the largest areas of irrigated cropland.

The left overs left behind in the soil as irrigated water forfarming evaporates, which makes the soil water have a higherosmotic content for the plants.

This work demonstrates that SuperU can reduce N2O emissions from irrigated cropping systems, but the results suggest that there is a crop - dependent effect.

A pioneer of Israeli water - saving techniques for irrigated farming, he is now a leading academic in the US, with a string of UN consultancies, including advising on water for many of the Middle East's Arab governments.

Large corral with Irrigated Pasture set up for your horses or cattle.

In a recent study published by Point Blue Conservation Science (Point Blue) and Audubon California in the journal Western Birds, scientists document the importance of irrigated agricultural crops in California's Central Valley to a conspicuous shorebird.

The threat of salt water invading fresh water aquifers, from which farmers irrigate crops, is as great as the risk of inundation.

Check out this BEAUTIFUL REMODEL in HISTORIC EVERGREEN DISTRICT IN MESA on Large Irrigated lot.

Studies show that fatty tissues are not irrigated by lymphatic vessels.

Performance of aerobic rice varieties under irrigated conditions in North China.

We also explore the higher yield potential of newer varieties released for irrigated systems.

Large flood irrigated lot with 22 citrus trees.

I have taken brewed saffron tea for the past 2 years which provided some relief and revitalization of skin tissue though remaining quite sensitive when irrigating my nasal passage with salt and warm water.

The company, which banks with National Australia Bank, saw its average yield for irrigated cotton reach 15.10 bales per hectare with an average price of $ 574 per bale including seed.

The result was that only the raw graywater irrigated soil showed hydrophobicity, which could be mitigated with both moderately and highly treated solutions.

- Ongoing melting of alpine glaciers in the Himalayas will devastate the heavily irrigated farmlands of Asia by increasing floods and decreasing long - term water supplies.

Nice sized irrigated lot, with mature trees, and covered patio.

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 water contained in the Indus River plain aquifer, once pumped, is lost to the region via evaporation from irrigation or transpiration from irrigated plants.

In rough figures, when an extensive irrigated green roof shows an average summertime temperature of 80 degrees, the same roof without irrigation will average about 100 degrees.

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.

This luxury turnkey property also features an outdoor summer kitchen, a covered outdoor dining area, a double garage with remotely operated entry doors, and irrigated landscaped gardens.

The 17 % of cropland that is irrigated produces an estimated 30 - 40 % of all crops, but in many countries there will be progressively less water available for agriculture.

Yet, many people can reduce the amount of water they use to irrigate without sacrificing a nice lawn, she said.

Frances: Yes, as long as they are well irrigated, you can grow peppers in the desert.

«The reduced yield [trait] does not exceed the natural variation observed in regionally - adapted varieties of conventional corn,» the report says, adding that «Equally comparable varieties produced through conventional breeding techniques are readily available in irrigated corn production regions.»

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.

Freeze damage is showing up in at least two different ways in irrigated wheat as the crop nears harvest... read more

There are six key practices which together form the System of Rice Intensification, the first four of which depart dramatically from the ways in which farmers around the world have grown irrigated rice for millennia:

A number of studies of trickle - irrigated chile peppers in New Mexico indicated that it is the amount of water applied that increases yield — not the method of applying the water.

If consumers follow the instructions and do not over irrigate, they can enjoy top quality, fresh and ever available leafy vegetables and herbs.

«We identify the situations where organic does well and we also identify the situations where it does not do so well, for example under irrigated conditions where the conventional yields can be just so high that organic agriculture can't match these yields.»

In the Indus, Ganges, Yellow, and Yangtze River basins, where irrigated agriculture depends heavily on rivers, this loss of dry - season flow will shrink harvests and could create unmanageable food shortages.

She sees a similar potential for China, which is now also expanding its drip irrigated area to save scarce water.

The surrounding scenery is very varied, ranging from semi-desert, scrub - covered hills, cut through by fertile irrigated valleys, to high mountain ranges whose lower slopes are clad in vast pine forests.

Relying heavily on subsidies, it developed an extensive irrigated agriculture based largely on its deep fossil aquifer.