Olam, which is backed by sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings, will lease - back the almond groves and land as well as related farming and
irrigation infrastructure for a period of 18 years.
Not exact matches
Because of low rainfall and lack of
irrigation infrastructure, water management is often not an option
for rainfed lowland rice farmers.
This last seminar was crucial, because though bond money paid
for «hard»
infrastructure, such as grading,
irrigation lines, trees, plants, ponds, and plantings, the more ambitious a particular school's «soft» green dreams, the more adept supporters needed to be at grant writing.
So we can do what California voters have just voted
for: enlarge, enhance, refurbish flood control and
irrigation infrastructure.
Global Warming floods and droughts crops, increases insect and fungal growth, increases the spread of said non-indigenous vermin, alters the range of crops to where geology and
infrastructure (such as
irrigation and farms) is not favourable (north of the Southern Manitoba bread - basket is boreal forest too acidic
for crops and north even further is only accessible by winter roads)...... these problems are potentially solvable, but certainly as soon as Chinese Himalayan meltwater dries up, or as soon as a Monsoon season fails because of Global Warming, the next decade of cost savings by following the Republican / Conservative geoengineering «plan»... such preventable events in the midst of an economic golden age will be looked on by future generations as evil.
More
irrigation water in the future may require agricultural expansion to help with food security whereas less water might mean the region moving out of agricultural altogether, decisions with major implications
for investment in regional
infrastructure.
Lots of suggestions over the past few decades: more research, robustifying the
infrastructure, improved
irrigation and flood control, saving more resources
for disaster recovery.
The government has allocated $ 17 million (USD)
for the projects, which include boosting the amount of recycled water used
for irrigation, storm water capture and reuse, revving up the capacity of water recycling plants, and improving the water pipeline
infrastructure.
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for this Online Resume:
irrigation, golf course, landscape,
infrastructure networks, electromechanical work