Sentences with phrase «irrigated cotton»

The two DSSAT crop modules were evaluated using measured data on soil water and crop yield from four treatments: irrigated cotton without a cover crop, irrigated cotton with winter wheat as a cover crop, dryland cotton without a cover crop, and dryland cotton with a winter wheat cover crop at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Chillicothe from 2011 to 2015.

Engineers have installed 16 wireless infrared sensors on the arm of a center - pivot system used to irrigate cotton in a research plot.

In the 1960s the Soviet government diverted water from two tributaries of the Aral, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, to irrigate cotton fields.

«That includes the water that goes into irrigating the cotton crop, stitching the jeans together and washing them scores of times at home,» reports the Times.

That includes the water that goes into irrigating the cotton crop, stitching the jeans together and washing them scores of times at home.

Not exact matches

However, cotton, like almonds, is highly reliant on irrigated water, making the sector vulnerable to drought and rising water prices as well as political stoushes, as is occurring currently in the Federal parliament over the next stage of the Murray Darling Basin irrigation plan.

The second objective was to use the evaluated modules to assess the long - term effects of growing winter wheat as a cover crop on water balances and seed cotton yield under irrigated and dryland conditions, Ale said.

Production of cotton, the primary irrigated crop in the Southwest and in southern Arizona in particular, will drop to less than 10 percent of the crop yield under optimal irrigation conditions, the study projects.

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.

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.

«Organic» cotton from Pakistan may be free of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, but it is irrigated with fresh water resources that are rapidly being depleted.

This chronic lack of irrigation water to cotton growers, rice growers and the diverse Murray River irrigated agriculture is well known by the industries involved.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Mowed and irrigated pastures without supervision which led to 30 % increase in produce • Sprayed acres of crops of bean and cotton with fertilizers and pesticides single handedly enhancing quality of the produce by 50 % • Planned and implemented changes in the existing barn house setting and interior which were highly commended • Revealed exemplary performance in grooming race horses and earned second prize for the same in annual horse exhibition • Stocked and labeled shelves with new equipment and worked for extra hours during staff shortage