Sentences with phrase «on irrigated»

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

With 60 percent of the world's grain harvest produced on irrigated land, anything that reduces the irrigation water supply reduces the food supply.

In a country dependent on irrigated land for 70 percent of its grain, water shortages are fast becoming a security issue.

Anything more would imply unacceptably large impacts on irrigated agriculture.

Wheat yields were low and static, with a national average yield of 750 kilos per hectare, even though most of the wheat was grown on irrigated land.

We sell grass - fed beef, which we raise on irrigated pasture without the use of antibiotics, hormones, supplements, insecticides or chemical fertilization.

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.

For hemp grown on irrigated land, the estimated yield was 1,679 lbs / acre at $ 0.74 per pound, earning $ 1,322 CDN / acre in gross returns; 64 % higher compared to dryland.

Not exact matches

Less than 5 % of agriculture on the continent is irrigated, and rainfall can be absent for weeks on end in some countries.

Or you could always watch videos of other people irrigating on YouTube — you certainly won't be alone.

The trust deficit is the wellspring that irrigates the seeds of political risk and social polarization reversing the course on globalization and multilateralism.

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.

He was on the side of reason, myth, splendor, and virtue, in the hope that such vital elements of life might «still trickle down to irrigate the dust - bowl of modern economic Statecraft.»

to help him irrigate his garden plots, on the grounds that «cunning contrivances» lead to «cunning hearts,» and thus to a soul in which «Tao will not dwell» (UP 320).

In the past century success in feeding a growing population depended in large part on doubling cropland and a five-fold increase in irrigated land.

The treated water is used for irrigating crop on about 1,200 acres surrounding the plant.

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.

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

This video provides recommendations on how to control weedy rice, from results of collaborative research studies among IRRI, the Rice Research and Development Institute in Sri Lanka, University of Ruhuna, and the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

IRRI works with Indian farmers on various crop management options such as resource - conserving technologies, direct seeding, mechanization, and postharvest to streamline production practices for both rainfed and irrigated systems.

He previously taught and conducted research on water conservation in irrigated urban landscapes and the water use behaviors of woody and herbaceous plants.

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

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.

Three creeks converge on what looks like a golf course but is actually the irrigated greenery of the Taylor Ranch pasture and the adjacent airstrip.

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.

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

On either side lie lush green polygons — the irrigated fields of the Mexicali valley just south of the US border, where tomatoes, cucumbers and onions grow in what should be a desert.

Moreover, some Indigenous people rely on harvesting wild plants and animals, and irrigating crops threatens that (Biological Conservation, doi.org/tj2).

«Over a century, we've been irrigating this country, and we've established an ecology based on what we've been doing,» he said.

Wherever possible, farmers built dams and canals to irrigate cropland; they also built terraced stone walls on hillsides to make new fields; and they drained the swamps outside Tenochtitlán to create raised fields (chinampas), one of the most highly productive agricultural systems of the ancient world.

In the western United States, where corn must be irrigated because precipitation is less reliable, Schnoor said the strain on the underground water supply is even greater.

The house has a rainwater collection on the roof; the water is used to irrigate the plants and also feeds into the household plumbing.

«What we want to do is provide useful information that either farmers or land investors can use to look into the future and make decisions on where is the right region to expand irrigated agriculture, and where is it more risky.

The way farmers irrigate their fields can have a significant impact on human health — and water conservation

Eventually, no matter how efficient our cultivars, cacao growers will have to figure out how to irrigate more crops instead of relying on fickle rainfall.

Water concentrated and conveyed by washes would have allowed for the diversion of surface water to irrigate large corn fields on the Chuska Slope, he said.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scott continues to work on climate impacts and adaptation in Northwest irrigated agriculture and on forecasting the impacts of climate change, demographic change, and technology adoption on the western U.S. power grid.

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.

IRRI works with Indian farmers on various crop management options such as resource - conserving technologies, direct seeding, mechanization, and postharvest to streamline production practices for both rainfed and irrigated systems.

On the topic of our vanishing water supply and the state of America's High Plains Aquifer, «one of the world's great aquifers responsible for about 30 % of America's irrigated land,» Hunziker writes:

Farmers just must ready the soil, and irrigate the land based on a single crop.

Even so, it should be irrigated frequently early on to promote a healthy root system.

Butter is a perfect long distance food; it lasts for a long time, so it can be transported on a boat, it is resource intensive (a lot of feed goes into a gallon of milk, a lot of milk goes into a pound of butter), and the variation in environmental impact depending on where it is produced is huge (rain irrigated pasture over artificially irrigated grain).

If all the water used to irrigate the crops fell from the sky as rain or was taken from rivers or underground sources in sustainable amounts we'd be in good shape, but sadly and increasingly, that is not the case (see sidebar for more on this).

In the Alpujarres, a valley on the other side of the Sierra Nevada, the irrigated terraces that were constructed by the Moors, are still functioning.

Ripples irrigate the river rock, tracing Bali nature pass the river which is full of fun and pass the attractive and challenging rapids are the impressive Bali Rafting experience on your vacation in Bali.