Sentences with phrase «irrigated farming»

Melting of mountain glaciers with down - steam effects on irrigated farming, again with increasing numbers of refugees;

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.

These aquifers are used to irrigate farms, bring water to villages and feed springs, some of which are important to tourism.

However, «farmers will have to adequately feed the soil with enough nutrients, so that the pods are healthy, they also have to get good irrigation, and that is why our Chinese friends are here to find the best possible way of irrigating our farms.»

The outsiders, feeling welcomed, started staking claims along the Gila River, on which the Pima depended to irrigate their farms.

And the World Bank reported recently that when land in the northeastern Piaui district was redistributed to small farmers, yields increased by up to 40 per cent on naturally irrigated farms and up to 70 per cent on those that were artificially irrigated.

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.

That's because China has been tapping into its aquifers, underwater reservoirs deep underground, to irrigate its farm land.

A coal mine had tunneled under a creek that irrigated her farm, and the heavy metals in the water caused the crops to die.

• Assess the quality of soil to determine crop planting plans and dig trenches accordingly • Seed crops by hand or by using dedicated machineries by ensuring that they are planted in designated areas • Irrigate farm soil by using irrigation channels and ensure that pipes and pumps are properly maintained • Assign work activities to farm hands and direct and monitor them to ensure that they work according to specifications

Situated in the northwest corner of Dallam County is a 1,740 + / - acre irrigated farm.

# 2: Seller is a bank with a foreclosed irrigated farm for sale.

This beautiful water feature stores the water used to irrigate the farming operation.

Not exact matches

Because of its high amount of surface water, it was ideal for loi, irrigated fields for farming the starchy vegetable taro, a staple crop, she said.

As a result, about 90 percent of the land cultivated by Jewish settlers is irrigated, as opposed to only 3 percent of the land farmed by Palestinians.

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 fund has a portfolio of 17 farms organised into five aggregations that operate broadacre cropping, irrigated, beef and dairy enterprises.

The fund has a substantial western Victoria cropping aggregation a prized King Island aggregation for beef production and a farming aggregation at Darlington Point for irrigated cropping in NSW which includes the famed Tubbo Station and Huddersfield.

This covers research on improvement of rainfed lowland and irrigated rice varieties, plant pathology, entomology, soil science, agronomy, and farming systems.

AgCAP started the sale process in March of the portfolio of 17 farms organised into five aggregations that operate broadacre cropping, irrigated, beef and dairy enterprises.

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.

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

Nearly all water needed to supply cities, farms, and industry accumulates as snow in nearby or distant mountain ranges melts and runs down into rivers used to irrigate crops, sustains fish and wildlife, and quenches...

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

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

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week that it had traced the responsible bacterial strain, Salmonella Saintpaul, to a serrano pepper grown on a Mexican farm that irrigated its fields with water contaminated by the bug.

It looks almost out of place — a leafy oasis in a sea of humanity, a spot of nature amid peasant villages and irrigated rice and manioc farms.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it traced the responsible bacterial strain — Salmonella Saintpaul — to a Serrano pepper grown on a Mexican farm that irrigated its fields with water contaminated with it.

Dry farmed plants grow up to 50 ft deeper than irrigated plants, which allows the crop to grow in nutrient - rich soil in an environmentally friendly way.

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.

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.

This farm used to irrigate with well and municipal water, but artists Marjetica PotrÄ and Marguerite Kahrl have developed a solar powered rainwater harvesting system to gather the water from the roofs of the greenhouses.

The Expo was to be a catalyst for reviving Milan's network of waterways, opening up canals to irrigate surrounding farms.

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.

«sewage farming,» the practice of irrigating neighboring farms with municipal sewage.

A farm worker is a semi-skilled farm laborer on an institutional farm which performs duties like cultivating, fertilizing, irrigating and harvesting farm crops on assigned plots.

Keep record of farm activities on a weekly basis that include seeds sown, land area ploughed, farmland irrigated, and animal births.

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• Ploughed, planted, irrigated and harvested crops • Ensured proper and timely fertilization of crop soil • Performed weed and pest control procedures in a safe manner • Fostered farm animals • Maintained all farm machinery in excellent, functional condition • Constructed vine trellises to support vines, berries and fruit

KEY QUALIFICATIONS • Over five years of dedicated experience working in the farmhouse • Highly skilled in practical farm operations including plowing, planting, irrigating and fertilizing • Hands on experience of using service equipment such as tractors and milking machines • In - depth knowledge of maintaining sanitary living arrangements for farm animals

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