Sentences with phrase «irrigated agricultural»

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.

Irrigation efficiency could also be improved in irrigated agricultural basins.

He comes to the portfolio amid tense times within the wool, dairy and irrigated agricultural industries.

Aqua Ferre joined forces with Harvey Water in developing an industry - led solution to the water quality problems in the Wellington Dam and the Myalup Irrigated Agricultural Precinct.

It is admirable for its colossal constructions with their impeccable finish, perfectly assembled sets of symmetrical benched terraces, ceremonial centers, like the Intiwatana which must have been used to observe solar movements, as well as for its sacred places, towers, fortified walls, cemetery, urban areas, stone buildings, narrow streets, stairways and aqueducts, to irrigate its agricultural and urban sectors.

Not exact matches

The state government has given Chinese group Kimberley Agricultural Investment four years to develop active irrigated agriculture in the Ord River region, before it will agree to signing long - term leases.

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

The Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) was created in 1997 with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to provide a venue for linkages among national agricultural research and extension systems, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, academic institutions, and the private sector.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

The spores like humidity, and struck irrigated fields in drought - stricken areas, says Mahmoud Solh, head of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Aleppo, Syria.

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.

Agricultural water productivity could be improved in stressed basins where agriculture is commonly irrigated.

«In order to grow enough corn, we've been pushing to the fringes, into land that needs extensive irrigating,» says Otto Doering, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University.

Then there are the fertile valleys of the villages of San Pablo de Buceite and San Mart n del Tesorillo, where orange groves and other agricultural activities, irrigated by the River Guadiaro, are important local industries in the area.

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.

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

Scientists at the Agro Climate Research Centre at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University have projected that productivity of irrigated rice is likely to drop by four per cent in the coastal areas, while maize and sorghum yields could fall up to 50 per cent in certain areas.

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.

Agricultural, irrigated land tended to have much lower time on the market, at 60 days, compared to commercial, which averaged 237 days.