Sentences with phrase «irrigated areas»

Sardar Riaz A. Khan, former director of Pakistan's Arid Zone Research Institute, expects that within 10 — 15 years virtually all the basins outside the canal - irrigated areas will have depleted their groundwater supplies, depriving the province of much of its grain harvest.

Impact on the hydrological cycle has the biggest impact cooling irrigated areas, but adding to water vapor feedback in others.

It seems true that newly - irrigated areas will mostly have been areas which either weren't grown on before, or had less lush crops (i.e. less sunlight absorption).

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.

It is estimated that > 6 % of the world's land and 30 % of the world's irrigated areas already suffer from salinity problems (Unesco Water Portal, 2007).

It may be that urban areas and irrigated areas are also heavily fossil fuel intensive, but they'd also be intensive of any other energy source which might replace CO2 generating ones.

«Throughout our lifetimes irrigated areas were increasing, but now they're beginning to decline.»

You can minimize your dog's exposure to the disease by limiting his access to marshy or heavily irrigated areas, ponds and any stagnant surface water.

We employ the same breeding approaches and methods as those in Asia, to develop new generations of high - yielding varieties suited to irrigated areas in Africa.

Using an Earth system framework for the future, researchers will explore the combined effects of groundwater pumping, changing irrigated areas, and specific crop types and crop growth on global hydrology.

It is supported by the fact that irrigated areas largely coincide with regions where elevated arsenic concentrations were measured by co-author Ali Shah of COMSATS (Islamabad).

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.

But it would devastate the farms, which have actually increased the irrigated area since the end of the Soviet era in 1991.

But it would devastate the farms, which have actually increased the irrigated area since the end of the Soviet era.

It is the commercial center of an irrigated area that produces large quantities of sugarcane, rice, tobacco, and fruit, and provides the province with its nickname, the Garden of the Republic.

You might ask your veterinarian about this, and see if he / she has the instrumentation to visualize and irrigate the area.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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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.

The spread of these highly productive seeds, combined with a tripling of irrigated area and an 11-fold increase in world fertilizer use, tripled the world grain harvest.

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.

During the last half of the twentieth century, world irrigated area nearly tripled, expanding from 94 million hectares in 1950 to 276 million hectares in 2000.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The water in the wadi was then used to irrigate the rainless, arid area around the wadi making cultivation possible.

Irrigate heavily prior to planting so that the salt is moved below root areas.

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.

IRRI also gives support in national strategy and framework planning for hybrid rice development; research on abiotic stress tolerance particularly submergence, drought, and low temperature damage in high elevation areas; support for the implementation of integrated crop and resource management in the target areas through the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) and the Indonesian Rice Knowledge Bank; and support of dissemination of post harvest technologies.

The University's experiment station houses the meat processing plant, feedlot facilities, cattle working areas and 650 acres of irrigated pasture, all just 15 minutes from the main campus in downtown Reno.

Distilled wastewater would used to irrigate the surrounding areas, creating lush, palm tree oases where barren desert used to be.

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 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, Sareas, says Mahmoud Solh, head of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Aleppo, SAreas (ICARDA) in Aleppo, Syria.

Less rainfall to the area will mean reduced runoff into water basins that feed irrigated fields.

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

Observers recorded over 20,000 curlews: about 93 % were in the central and southern portions of the Central Valley, concentrating in areas extensively flood irrigated for alfalfa and irrigated pasture.

The sea was sacrificed to the politics of the Soviet Union — its water taken to irrigate ever increasing areas of cotton and rice to satisfy production targets set by its successive five - year plans.

«And it's the only system that limits irrigation to exactly the area that needs to be irrigated.»

Of course, most of us would only use rainwater to irrigate our lawn or garden, and there should be plenty to go around for doing that in all but the most drought stricken areas.

Water has long been a contentious issue in California, where it has been diverted from mountain lakes and streams to irrigate farms and slake the thirst of metropolitan areas.

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.

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

Urban areas are now competing with irrigated agriculture by demanding an increasing -LSB-...]

The disease occurs in both tropical and temperate environments, particularly in irrigated and rainfed lowland areas.

The Amarillo center targets rainfed and irrigated production in the drier areas of the state such as the High Plains and Rolling Plains of Texas.

In areas where Agnihotra ash water has been used to irrigate the fields, the result was the growth of larger and healthier crops.

If any of the chemicals have gotten into the eyes it is important to irrigate the eye area with room temperature water for several minutes.