Sentences with phrase «well irrigated»

Frances: Yes, as long as they are well irrigated, you can grow peppers in the desert.

Not exact matches

Other 2008 No. 1's staring at parched landscapes have shifted their sights to better - irrigated climes.

Attempts were made to boost this intensive agriculture by sinking wells to irrigate the land.

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 PSTOL1 gene is also being tested in rice varieties for the more productive irrigated rice - growing areas and initial results show that the plants grow a better root system and have higher production too.

You should flood irrigate your plants to remove even more fertilizer, assuming that the soil drains well.

«We identify the situations where organic does well and we also identify the situations where it does not do so well, for example under irrigated conditions where the conventional yields can be just so high that organic agriculture can't match these yields.»

However, Arlington Heights was told that Rolling Green still will use well water to irrigate the course, Ford said.

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.»

«We determined we need to be irrigating at 75 percent of our past ET levels as estimated with the current model and finding hybrids that better tolerate stress,» Brauer said, adding this was from studies conducted by Xu and Marek over several years.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

In predicting how climate will affect irrigated crop yields in the future, the researchers also consider factors such as population and economic growth, as well as competing demands for water from various socioeconomic sectors, which are themselves projected to change as the climate warms.

We also want to make clear that climate mitigation is better for U.S. irrigated agriculture than not doing anything.»

«So, the idea,» she said, «was they did everything right to produce their best crop — their best seed, they fertilized it, they irrigated it — whatever they needed to do, but they just didn't control the weeds in the untreated plots, so we could see what kind of yield loss impact that would have.»

Waste will be ours to make, ours to bury and, in all likelihood, ours to irrigate as well.

With 3 million hectares of good alluvial land, half of which can be irrigated easily, Mali could become a breadbasket.

Perasi waves at a family splashing in water that will later flow out to irrigate their rice, as well as the coconut trees and bird - filled shrubs that divide the paddies.

The well near Hamilton is downgradient from several irrigation canals and irrigated fields; the well near Florence is not located near irrigation.

When irrigating, it is advisable to soak the root system well and let the surface dry before irrigating again.

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.

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).

The best way to prevent leptospirosis consists in preventing dogs from wandering into risk areas, such as ponds, irrigated pastures and muddy areas.

A deep well provides Blue Heron with water, they irrigate their crops with a combination of overhead sprinklers and drip tape.

Despite the heat, which can reach well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit at the height of summer, the interior is well - irrigated and is surprisingly green.

It is admirable for its colossal constructions with their impeccable finish, perfectly assembled sets of symmetrical benched terraces, ceremonial centers, like the Intiwatana which must have been used to observe solar movements, as well as for its sacred places, towers, fortified walls, cemetery, urban areas, stone buildings, narrow streets, stairways and aqueducts, to irrigate its agricultural and urban sectors.

Greentique Hotels use their own wells to irrigate hotel gardens in the summer.

For a better option, look to saline aquifers, which are porous geological formations containing salty water that no one would want to drink or irrigate with anyway.

The best biofuel is still ethanol from corn but it has to be part of an integrated production facility which should include the following steps: cattle feed lot, feed all waste (distiller's dried solids) to the cattle, convert the cattle waste to methane to supply part of the energy source for the distillation, burn the dry crop waste to provide the remainder of the energy, irrigate the crops with the effluent from the methane digestor.

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.

Overhead, matched - precipitation rotor systems are the best for irrigating green roofs, and they do a better job with less water than drip or sub irrigation methods.

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.

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.

irrigation was a big part of the paper a colleague and I have pending publication called «Burning Water - The Energy Return on Water Invested» - using irrigated water numbers, the best biofuels required 10 times the water input as the most water intensive fossil fuel.

In Tamil Nadu, a state with more than 62 million people in southern India, wells are going dry almost everywhere and falling water tables have dried up 95 percent of the wells owned by small farmers, reducing the irrigated area in the state by half over the last decade.

That means many will turn to wells for water, but an estimated 500,000 acres of the state's 8 million irrigated acres will be left fallow this year.