Sentences with phrase «irrigated vegetable»

And where it has happened, most attention was given to the larger scale, capital intensive and fully commercial farmers, especially peri-urban irrigated vegetable production, poultry and dairy production.

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.

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.

The alluvial plains are suitable for more crops and garden vegetables, especially when properly irrigated.140

From there it would irrigate almost 200 000 hectares of tobacco, rice and vegetable fields in the east of mainland Greece.

By irrigating land that would otherwise be desert, they produce half of the fruit and vegetables sold in the US.

Irrigated agriculture in Montana involves a variety of crops (e.g., hay, grains, pasture, vegetables) in diverse settings, so generalizations about how a changing climate will affect demand are difficult.

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.

What type of water do you use to irrigate your gardens, vegetables and animals?

Fish from contaminated water or vegetables irrigated by contaminated water are other ways the disease can spread.

We are designing a radically affordable 2 kilowatt solar pumping system capable of drip irrigating one hectare of high value diversified off - season fruits, vegetables and spices at a retail price 80 percent lower than the existing price of $ 7,000 for an installed 2 kilowatt solar pumping system in India today.

In recent years, small - scale drip - irrigation systems — literally a bucket with flexible plastic tubing to distribute the water — have been developed to irrigate small vegetable gardens with roughly 100 plants (covering 25 square meters).

The USDA / NASS studies tracked harvested acres without differentiating between irrigated and non-irrigated acreage; it gathered data on planted vs. harvested acres for some crops but not others; it did not account for systems in which «baby vegetable» crops (usually organic) are grown in short rotations on the same plot (such as spinach, lettuce, and carrots) and thus have lower yields; and it omitted some data that would have revealed too much information about individual farmers, in cases where very few growers produce a particular crop.