For perennial irrigation dams are used to divert water from streams or rivers into the canal network. |
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The farm economy in valley is dependent on the canal irrigation system which feeds tens of thousands of acres of land across the valley. |
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Intensive irrigation would reshape arid lands and revolutionize rural life. |
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He has called for the rehabilitation of the irrigation furrow to improve people's living standards. |
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The water towers not only provide water but also allow for crop irrigation. |
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Farmers and miners are protesting that wads of money are being spent on technology when all they really want is some decent irrigation. |
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An irrigation ditch ran alongside to the left of the track and was filled with water, weeds, waist-high rushes and reeds. |
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Settlements in other areas of the Brahui region depend on qanat irrigation, a system of tunnels dug between shafts to carry water. |
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For many years the London newspaper, The Times, carried an advertisement for colonic irrigation on its front page. |
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Most of the windmill units have started planting jatropha with drip irrigation facility. |
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To acquaint me with the ground reality, he asked me to stay at the village and supervise the irrigation of peaches during April-May, which I did. |
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Develop a simple field map with acreage, crop, and any irrigation restrictions. |
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Roads were formed and water races constructed for gold mining and the irrigation that would lead to the prosperity that would follow. |
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There are terraces on the ground and first floors, plus a lawned garden with built-in irrigation system. |
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Different concentrations of ground water nitrate were obtained by drilling irrigation wells into two aquifers. |
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Mist irrigation is additionally used for vanilla farming since it requires humidity. |
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The farther a water source, the more hose necessary to adequately drain at each irrigation. |
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He uses a drip irrigation system to avoid wetting the leaves, which could promote the growth of fungi. |
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The extensive network of large irrigation channels depends entirely upon the wet season rainwater collected in the dam. |
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It is a similar picture in thousands of villages across China, where population growth has meant rampant farming and wasteful irrigation. |
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Drawing water for irrigation also became adversely affected, causing a noticeable decline in produce grown. |
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Much of the state's multibillion-dollar agribusiness industry is based upon irrigation, powered by electricity of course. |
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One Kikuyu female farmer, for example, approached a large farm with a proposal to pay a small fee to tap into their irrigation system. |
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After humanitarian aid is stepped up, the most important task is re-establishing agriculture, including seed production and irrigation. |
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Row crops and plant nurseries on level terrain are well suited for surface irrigation. |
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Irrigating well before the normal irrigation season could result in a considerable time lapse between irrigations. |
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She shaped the space with graceful curves, amended the soil with compost, and installed drip irrigation. |
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At particular risk are aquifers, underground repositories of water that are tapped by wells for agricultural irrigation and drinking water. |
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Such a dam would turn the lake into a reservoir to store irrigation water for use in the lower Yellowstone Valley. |
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If rainfall or irrigation is excessive, nitrate will be leached below the plant? |
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The draining of water from rivers and watersheds for irrigation leads to drier natural habitats. |
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I would say that over the years they will have more artesian wells and will bring in irrigation on a wider scale. |
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Reservoirs are running dry, unable to meet demands for drinking water and crop irrigation. |
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We put in irrigation and grew lucerne on the second farm to feed the sheep on the main farm. |
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Other experts say the Green Revolution's large-scale irrigation systems caused fields to become waterlogged and heavily salinized. |
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The next step is to get the irrigation systems to activate automatically in response to real-time field data. |
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A high degree of automation is possible with some types of irrigation equipment. |
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Favoured by brolgas, sarus cranes and black-necked storks, its lagoons were created from excess irrigation water. |
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Taro can be grown in paddy fields or in upland situations where watering is supplied by rainfall or by supplemental irrigation. |
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Rural poverty and backward agriculture will have to be tackled with, among other things, irrigation, power, communications and education. |
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For farmers in a region with no irrigation projects, this is manna from heaven. |
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These people had developed agricultural skills including terracing and irrigation. |
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The Indian subculture of New Mexico and Arizona, for example, developed field terracing and irrigation. |
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Uzbekistan was the main producer of cotton for the Russian textile industry and its irrigation needs were considered to be the priority issue. |
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Some of the income that accrues is used to buy tractors, threshers, and irrigation and distillation equipment, which is then offered on hire. |
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Two axial flow electric pumps draw 120 megalitres a day out from the river to water cotton now grown on 500 hectares developed for irrigation. |
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Although no crops could be grown without irrigation, officials still considered such land timbered and would not allow it. |
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Even we do not use irrigation and fumigation to our field used for growing senna. |
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Place several rain gauges in the irrigation area to check the depth of application. |
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Slower rates of infiltration means slower recharge of soil moisture during rainfall or surface irrigation. |
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The goal of establishing plants in the irrigation area is to improve the appearance of the lot. |
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Wastewater in the second stage of a two-stage lagoon may be dilute enough for irrigation on growing crops. |
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During years of normal rainfall, supplemental irrigation appears to offer no advantages from the standpoint of yield or quality. |
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Dizziness was the only side effect reported and was more frequent following irrigation with room temperature solution. |
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After two months, the abdominal distension showed no improvement and bowel irrigation was needed. |
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They compared the comfort level and side effects of warmed versus room-temperature saline solution for ear irrigation. |
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Until the early 20th century, various therapies, such as colonic irrigation, were commonly used for a variety of systemic disorders. |
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Methods of mechanical debridement include the use of wet-to-dry dressings, whirlpool, and wound irrigation. |
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The differences in age, operation time, ultrasound time, and amount of irrigation solution among the groups were not significant. |
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It soon was apparent that what showed as paths on the map were actually berms running beside irrigation canals. |
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Surveying was the essential precondition to owning land, building a mill race, or constructing a canal, railroad, or irrigation ditch. |
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The resources are being used for the repairs of 8km of road and the reconstruction of bridges, temporary shelters and irrigation systems. |
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This wooden pump was used for irrigation and to pump bilge water from ships. |
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It is possible that foods that bioaccumulate are more likely to be affected by the arsenic content in irrigation water. |
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The law allows compensation only for buildings and land, not for movables like the greenhouses' computerized irrigation systems. |
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Lawns of Kentucky bluegrass, buffalo grass, and tall fescue go dormant in winter and can survive without irrigation for many months. |
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When they drain the irrigation ditches the mudbugs come out by the thousands and literally cross the street looking for water. |
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Some Arab horsemen from behind the Turks galloped towards us, bucketing unhandily across the irrigation ditches. |
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The area used to depend on a ganda nullah for irrigation of the paddy crop. |
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Chanda says agricultural production can be increased if rural infrastructure like feeder roads, dams and irrigation systems are improved. |
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He said after the demand for irrigation of paddy crop was met in the next couple of days, normal power supply to urban feeders would be restored. |
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As drawing boards fill with plans for dams, navigation channels and irrigation projects, the fragile ecology is in danger of collapsing. |
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We planted and sodded the lawn and installed an irrigation system throughout. |
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The Urartians used highly developed techniques of irrigation and construction of fortified cities. |
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Plants were grown in soil and given full nutrition and irrigation throughout. |
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When this occurs due to cold saline irrigation, it appears to have no association to neural trauma. |
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Two irrigation regimes were compared and plants were sampled at four stages of vegetation. |
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It had been extinguished in some parts of the Ord Project Area with respect to the dam area and spillways and irrigation areas. |
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Surprisingly, many neighboring vineyards are farming without any irrigation at all. |
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Because it can be unpleasant to be sprayed with water, irrigation should be done when people and pets are not present. |
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Irrigators are responsible for the costs of all on-farm irrigation equipment such as pipes and sprinklers. |
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I think flood irrigation is going to have an important place here for a long time. |
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Design for winter operation must include self-draining pipes and winter nozzles if sprinkler irrigation is used. |
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Farm children often play near recently sprayed fields and sometimes swim in irrigation canals filled with water contaminated with pesticides. |
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Currently, more than 85 per cent of water from canals, tanks and wells and tube-wells is used for irrigation. |
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When payment is involved, the consensus was that it should be for irrigation, canals, pumps, and other infrastructure, not for water per se. |
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Not only was the water cascading down the walls of the well, but there was also an irrigation ditch barely 60 feet away. |
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In an effort to produce a water code favorable to irrigation, State Engineer Wade sought expert opinions throughout the West. |
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Most growers send irrigation water to their strawberry plants though slender polyethylene tubes known as drip tapes. |
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Vine trellising, and careful row orientation have become more common, and in certain areas irrigation is now practised to good effect. |
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Cultivation and hilling operations will likely be earlier than usual this year to stay ahead of the weeds and provide for early irrigation. |
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There, 1,400 farmers have been denied vital irrigation water to protect the bottom-feeding suckerfish. |
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Chen told the Taipei Times that it was unnecessary to let fields lie fallow because the peak irrigation demand period was almost over. |
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But he did not receive water from the government irrigation scheme in time, the paddy field dried out and he could not get a good harvest. |
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Currently none of the water stored in the reservoirs is used for irrigation, and the region enjoys a surplus of water supply. |
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Lorne Fitts, master gardener, adjusts the irrigation system for his Delicata and Hubbard squashes at the community garden. |
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The sodium hyaluronate is removed with the irrigation and aspiration system. |
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Many cultures in the ancient and classical world built canals to extend the irrigation provided by rivers. |
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In 1985, we installed buried irrigation pipes leading from the pond to fourteen hydrants. |
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This wrecked flood control, municipal and industrial water storage, irrigation and hydroelectric power. |
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A more extreme treatment is colonic irrigation, also called colonic hydrotherapy. |
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Based on these findings, irrigation fluids should approximate body temperature to avoid hypothermic or hyperthermic injury. |
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Its closeness to the canalized river must have provided plentiful water for irrigation of its trees and plants. |
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He said priorities include the implementation of the decision taken on agriculture, to have drop-down irrigation schemes along perennial rivers. |
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Articles on feng shui, crystal therapy, iridology, colonic irrigation, herbalism and faith healing sweep the media every week. |
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If the object is not impacted or hygrostatic, warm water irrigation probably should be attempted first. |
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State-owned railways and state-funded irrigation schemes helped make farming viable on this far-flung frontier. |
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This feature is used to accommodate roadways, farmsteads or other areas where irrigation is unwanted. |
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Several irrigation drip lines feed the tower, one or two at the top and another in the middle. |
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Infertility of the land, poor farming system and irrigation, and lack of a farming bank all contributed to the country's isolation. |
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The effect of rootstock on wine quality is probably no greater than that of other factors such as soil, climate, fertilization, and irrigation. |
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Tall fescue, a cool-season grass, is good-looking and heat-hardy but requires irrigation to make it through the dry season. |
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The in-line hand operated valve controls the flow of at least the irrigation fluid or suction to a surgical site. |
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Despite concerns about the use of conductive irrigation solutions with electrosurgical devices, saline is the most common irrigant used. |
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Irrigated wheat that is intensively managed is at greatest risk because the moisture necessary for infection is often supplied by the irrigation. |
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In a constipated infant, it may be necessary to perform colonic irrigation with limited amounts of sterile saline. |
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Among his many inventions was an elegant device for pumping water uphill for irrigation purposes. |
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All water used for cooling towers, landscaping irrigation and toilet flushing is recycled water. |
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Growers are responsible only for irrigating the crop, making it an attractive alternative for farms with adequate irrigation water. |
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With flood irrigation, the water table near the creek is raised, that is, the amount of water in the soil is increased. |
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Thanks to plant breeding and irrigation, commercially grown cotton produces very high yields. |
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The human, for example, may be interested in the pond's water source, the potability of the water, or the potential for irrigation. |
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How has awareness of the damage irrigation can cause these fragile environments affected the Lake? |
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Various methods are used to remove cerumen, including irrigation, suction, and manual removal with a curette. |
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The irrigation pump could easily be hooked up in the same manner as a ice maker to the water system. |
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The irrigation rig north of town on the east side of Highway E is spraying canning factory waste-water today. |
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In the Soviet era, the Vakhsh River was dammed for irrigation and electric power, and factories were built along its banks. |
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The next morning, the kampu opens a wooden gate, releasing a flow of water that provides about nine hours of daytime irrigation. |
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Nutrients can be reused via irrigation, and the extracted energy can be used to generate heat and electricity. |
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Gazing out over his corn crop, a farmer is watching an irrigation system deliver bursts of water across the gently rolling field. |
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Reduced pressure backflow preventers are more expensive, used mostly in commercial irrigation installations. |
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Fertilizer in irrigation runoff has caused the normally small cattail patches to spread densely over thousands of acres. |
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For millennia, people have successfully converted desert landscapes into agricultural land through irrigation. |
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The most hotly debated issue, among those who want to detoxify at speed, is the virtue of colonic irrigation. |
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Long periods of precipitation, sprinkler irrigation to protect plants from freezing, or heavy dews in the spring also favor the disease. |
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The hardy grasses such as fine fescue and Kentucky bluegrass grow well here, but only with supplemental irrigation. |
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Proposals for border dyking were not accepted and low-interest loans for irrigation from the Rural Bank did not last. |
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Among the benefits of such optimization would be a reduced need for irrigation and more rapid plant growth. |
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A detailed design of the necessary pumps, pipes, valves, and emitters must be developed by an irrigation professional. |
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The Colorado River doesn't even empty into the ocean anymore because so much of it has been diverted for irrigation. |
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Cinder block dissipaters outside irrigation gates prevent floodwaters from eroding the floor. |
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It is the artery that provides life itself, as do its tributaries and distributaries, whether irrigation systems or natural deltas. |
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The rate structures set by irrigation districts fail to provide the stick for water conservation. |
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The trails cross irrigation ditches, and one eventually winds through rainforest to more open fields. |
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In one town, invading militiamen had filled an irrigation ditch with concrete. |
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When a Gastrografin enema is unsuccessful, laparotomy is indicated to evacuate the obstructing meconium by enterotomy irrigation. |
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In agriculture, every drop of water can be utilised by installing the drip irrigation system. |
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High frequency irrigation with nutritive solutions negatively affects both yield and dry matter content in tubers. |
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The plantation would provide seed, ratoons, tools, fertilizer, irrigation, and so on, and would pay a stipulated price for delivered cane. |
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In the perennial irrigation areas, it is usually grown under the basin flood irrigation method. |
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For perennial irrigation a duty of 60 acres can only be obtained by the most careful arrangements where crops are in large masses. |
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The arid desert climate gets little rainfall, but the Rio Grande provides water for irrigation. |
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Given the dry conditions this year, there's likely to be loose soil at the bottom of the furrow which may clog the furrow during the first irrigation. |
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The great expansion of the last century was brought about by the introduction of the system of perennial irrigation as well as by vast schemes of land reclamation. |
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The company's internal combustion engines can be found powering lift trucks, industrial wood chippers and stationary irrigation pumps among other things. |
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They blame fertiliser run-off, increased irrigation drawing water from the river, and rising salination as tidal effects reach further up the delta from the South China Sea. |
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Mixers are likely to use such questionable therapies as colonic irrigation, iridology, applied kinesiology, acupressure, and craniosacral therapy. |
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Berrios worries about losing specialists who can design large networks, databases and systems to control dams, spillways and other specialized irrigation or waterway systems. |
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Purple loosestrife will grow vigorously and clog irrigation canals, ditches, stream banks and reservoirs, resulting in less water available for crop production and recreation. |
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That feature is linked to the original development of the irrigation areas with smallholder fruit blocks for soldier settlers and, later, new immigrants. |
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This could settle the irrigation problem of the area to a great extent. |
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They have also developed affordable micro irrigation kits such as the bucket kit, drum kit and micro sprinklers suitable for kitchen gardens, nurseries, home gardens, etc. |
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By planting large palms to create deep shade, and laying an irrigation system, they were able to create a tropical microclimate in the dry, Beverly Hills climate. |
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If you live in the West, chances are your electric bill subsidizes irrigation, a cost you're supposed to recoup from lower food prices at the grocery store. |
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The surgeon thoroughly irrigated the wound with antibiotic irrigation. |
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The building's entire roof is a rainwater collector, feeding two 30,000-gallon cisterns, which store water used for irrigation via an automatic sprinkler system. |
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The main method of irrigation for peanuts is overhead sprinklers. |
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Three types of controllers exist for use in residential irrigation. |
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Runoff from irrigation and rain is recycled through a series of ponds and wetlands that naturally cleanse it for reuse in vineyards and landscaping. |
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They can power an irrigation pump or a buzz saw for bucking firewood. |
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Less soil compaction occurs with irrigation than with tank wagons. |
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Each year their fields need at least 53 billion cubic meters of water for irrigation. |
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The lack of rainfall is obviated to a degree by a well-developed irrigation system based upon a series of distributaries running from the Lower Swat Canal. |
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Stepped terraces are threaded by ingenious irrigation channels that, over the centuries, have transformed this mountain desert terrain into a breadbasket. |
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If drought persists some limited irrigation may be permitted. |
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These foreign bodies can be removed by irrigation or with a curette. |
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Before the 1860s, Pimas had maintained their agricultural fields and irrigation canals based on knowledge from a long history of agricultural subsistence. |
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With the bigger mole plough we lay 100m pipe for effluent or irrigation. |
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A few Pima grew crops and hunted in the nearby Gila River Valley, but the old extensive irrigation system was now virtually unknown to those who lived along the Salt. |
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In this way the operator can check field conditions before irrigation. |
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This basic design feature has also meant that only the systems which first appropriated the small winter flows have the benefit of perennial irrigation supplies. |
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Mozambique's drought is patchy, with some areas enjoying good rainfall or able to use old Portuguese colonial-era irrigation schemes to boost production. |
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The banks, which provide credit and cash, have been looted, irrigation systems destroyed, road travel restricted, markets closed, warehouses and grain silos pillaged. |
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In India, more farmers now provide their own water via wells and pumps than rely on the government's irrigation system, which is based on a network of canals. |
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They have done experiments to see whether kale and turnip plants could possibly take up the excess that sometimes builds up in drainage water from irrigation operations. |
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All three patients recovered fully after irrigation and debridement. |
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She had tried homeopathy, colonic irrigation, aloe vera, and reflexology. |
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He or she may be at risk for hypothermia from cool ambient temperatures, the use of unwarmed IV and irrigation fluids, or prolonged surgical time. |
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Construction of the piece, whose stainless-steel armature holds 25 tons of soil and includes an irrigation system, began in mid-May and took three weeks to complete. |
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Back in the early 1980s, when on a college program in India, I studied a low-tech irrigation project in drought-prone Maharashtra. |
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Photos from 40 years ago show a common practice of clearing vegetation and beaver dams from streams to help the water run more freely for irrigation. |
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Now tractors, settled villages and efficient irrigation schemes fed from dams along the Sebou river have turned the area into permanent ploughland. |
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It thus falls to IS to provide drinking water and irrigation to massive areas of farmland. |
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Bangladeshi water engineers say that Indian barrages, canals, reservoirs and irrigation schemes are slowly strangling the country and are stopping its development. |
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He claims his inheritance, transforms his arid lands into a lush and prosperous farm through an irrigation scheme, and is generally seen as a chip off the old block. |
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Dams and irrigation barrages have also added to the woes of the dolphins. |
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Diseases such as anthracnose, spur blight, and mildew may be more prevalent if irrigation is not accompanied by adequate disease-control measures. |
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This process can be mechanically assisted by deep belly massages and, yes, colonic irrigation. |
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We have also found smooth boisduvalia and chaffweed under irrigation pivots in cultivated fields, and sand verbena is found in open, shifting sand dunes. |
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The water debate is often limited to difficult arguments about agricultural irrigation in the Murray-Darling basin and the future of thirsty crops like cotton and rice. |
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The air mixed with fertilizers and pesticides that for decades were washed from the fields into the sea by irrigation water. |
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A Venturi chemical injector and radio-controlled valves are connected directly to the irrigation line leading to the green, regulating the chemical applications. |
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Egypt's future irrigation and industrial needs require a major increase in the northward flow of the Nile River. |
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This awkward anachronism came about when a couple of hundred prefabricated bungalows, built to house workers on an irrigation project in the 1960s, fell into disuse. |
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Nasal irrigation also may decrease mucosal inflammation osmotically. |
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Somehow the sorrel straightened up, surged forward, and proceeded to neatly cross four five-foot fences, an irrigation ditch, a gate, and two hurdles. |
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Vast stretches of Texas farmland lying over the aquifer no longer support irrigation. |
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Many follow the island's 1,365 miles of irrigation channels, called levadas, stretches of which run along steep slopes with precipitous drops to one side. |
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Of the 29,000 megalitres consumption which was attributed to agriculture in 2001 from all sources, 8,000 megalitres were identified as irrigation from private supplies. |
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Occasionally these communities have created disasters of their own making, through inappropriate irrigation practices and over-zealous forestation. |
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The giant irrigation projects began in the 1960s in the dry lands of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. |
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One intense young American with Maori tattoos on his legs and a straggling beard tells his fascinated fellows of his experiments with colonic irrigation. |
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Most amazing are the irrigation systems, called karezes or qanats. |
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He reasoned that constructing a dam would enable water to be stored for irrigation in the dry season, and flooding could be prevented at other times. |
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The Turkish farmers take irrigation water from the Orontes via steel pipes. |
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Liquids are spread on fields with tank wagons or irrigation. |
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The ten-acre site includes a configurable road course and 200-foot diameter skidpad with a computer-controlled irrigation system. |
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If Ganga and Cauvery are linked, Seemandhra will progress well as river irrigation will help them to cultivate in their lands, he said. |
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To maximise on conservation energy saver lamps, solarisation of water heating and irrigation pumping are some examples. |
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Seinhorst JW, Sauer MR Eelworm attacks on vine in the Murray Valley irrigation area. |
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A discrete choice logit model is used to capture the choice of irrigation and a multinomial logit model is used to capture crop choice. |
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To keep plants irrigated automatically, you could install a highly efficient, multivalve automatic irrigation system. |
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Because this sterile compound is prepared in premixed unit-dose vials, it may be used either for sinus irrigation or sinus nebulization. |
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Delta Plastics sells irrigation tubing and then recycles old tubing into postconsumer resin that can be used to make other products. |
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The first is a colonic irrigation and detox specialist business which has come on to the market due the owners relocating to Europe. |
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Effect of potassium humate and nitrogen fertilizer on herb and essential oil of oregano under different irrigation intervals. |
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By contusing irrigation with more leachate, the pH decreasing could be stopped at one point and after that the pH begins to increase. |
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Used to be apple orchards, used to be the river and irrigation ditches that watered the apples, used to be mining towns. |
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For example, ENVI can produce maps for crop irrigation management, studies of earthquake fault line movements and analysis of forest growth. |
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The vales, with good irrigation, are home to the region's dairy agriculture. |
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The Minoans had developed what was then an extremely advanced irrigation system, including several aqueducts. |
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Agriculture varies depending on rainfall, irrigation, soil, elevation, and temperature extremes. |
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The British Raj invested heavily in infrastructure, including canals and irrigation systems in addition to railways, telegraphy, roads and ports. |
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Some historians believe that the Mongol invasion destroyed much of the irrigation infrastructure that had sustained Mesopotamia for millennia. |
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Rivers were made navigatable, irrigation was improved, and the use of hydraulics was greatly increased. |
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Bates and Lees proposed that it was the incorporation of irrigation into farming which ensued in specialization. |
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The increased productivity of irrigation agriculture led to an increase in population and an added impact on resources. |
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With its capital at Yeha, the kingdom developed irrigation schemes, used plows, grew millet, and made iron tools and weapons. |
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Aid agencies subsequently shifted their emphasis to recovery initiatives, including digging irrigation canals and distributing plant seeds. |
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There are about 3,000 smallholder irrigation schemes covering a total area of 47,000 ha. |
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The city levied a commission on the sale of land which funded public improvements such as a library, park, irrigation systems, and a clubhouse. |
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British immigrants would have had little or no familiarity with the complex process of growing rice in fields flooded by irrigation works. |
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The earthworks included extensive, elaborate systems of dams and irrigation for rice. |
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Once early farmers perfected their agricultural techniques like irrigation, their crops would yield surpluses that needed storage. |
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Large parts of the catchment are devoted to agriculture and there a number of abstractions made from the river for summer irrigation. |
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They built schools, mosques, and irrigation channels, as well as water cisterns and bridges in Zabid, Aden, Rada'a, and Juban. |
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Aqueducts were built by the Greeks and Ancient Romans, while the history of China shows they built irrigation and flood control works. |
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Agricultural production increased with the introduction of irrigation projects, some of which remain in use. |
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Due to the absence of appreciable rainfall, Egypt's agriculture depends entirely on irrigation. |
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The main source of irrigation water is the river Nile of which the flow is controlled by the high dam at Aswan. |
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The most important use of water in agriculture is for irrigation, which is a key component to produce enough food. |
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Construction of dams and other irrigation facilities seriously decreases habitat availability and diversity for the eels. |
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In California, tomatoes are grown under irrigation for both the fresh fruit market and for canning and processing. |
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The use of drip irrigation in recent years has expanded vineyards into areas which were previously unplantable. |
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It creates Foehn winds which, along with natural irrigation, contributes to the fertility of the soil. |
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Elsewhere, irrigation is essential to improve crop yields on the desert margins. |
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Most of the Arabian Peninsula is unsuited to agriculture, making irrigation and land reclamation projects essential. |
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The ancient peoples of the Andes such as the Incas have practiced irrigation techniques for over 6,000 years. |
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His most famous construction is the Parakrama Samudra, the largest irrigation project of medieval Sri Lanka. |
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Complex mulches, crop rotations and tillages are used in rotation on terraces with complex irrigation systems. |
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The summer rainy season and the melted snow in winter provide a great environment for irrigation agriculture. |
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However, with irrigation from the Colorado River, this area has become truly an agricultural center. |
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A sugarcane crop is sensitive to the climate, soil type, irrigation, fertilizers, insects, disease control, varieties, and the harvest period. |
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For example, improper cropping and irrigation practices have led to desertification in areas of Uzbekistan, where cotton is a major export. |
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In the days of the Soviet Union, the Aral Sea was tapped for agricultural irrigation, largely of cotton, and now salination is widespread. |
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His main interests were in irrigation, fertilizers, famine relief, economic crops, and empirical observation with early notions of chemistry. |
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Efficient administration and vigorous overseas trade brought new technologies such as water management systems for irrigation. |
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Advances were made in irrigation and farming, using new technology such as the windmill. |
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Mediterranean engineers of the Hellenistic and Roman periods used the water wheel for both irrigation and as a power source. |
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At around the 8th to 10th century, a number of irrigation technologies were brought into Spain and thus introduced to Europe. |
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The standard first aid treatment for acid spills on the skin is, as for other corrosive agents, irrigation with large quantities of water. |
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As the power stations became larger, their associated dams developed additional purposes to include flood control, irrigation and navigation. |
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The Alps provide lowland Europe with drinking water, irrigation, and hydroelectric power. |
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It is historically the most important irrigation plain along the Yellow River. |
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With proper species selection for the local climate, mosses in green roofs require no irrigation once established and are low maintenance. |
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Circa 3 000 BC, the craters of extinct volcanoes in Arabia were used as reservoirs by farmers for their irrigation water. |
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In Sri Lanka large reservoirs were created by ancient Sinhalese kings in order to save the water for irrigation. |
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The Leeds and Liverpool Canal crosses the plain and, in summer, is used for irrigation, bringing water from the Pennines. |
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With these developments, Lambayeque will become a center of agroindustrial development, surpassing lea in the development of modern irrigation. |
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Other fixes include xeriscaping as well as gardening in zones to make sure that water-loving plants share a dedicated irrigation circuit. |
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It can also evaluate crop rotations, planting dates, irrigation and fertilizer use and project crop yields and their impact on the land. |
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It outcompetes crops, clogs irrigation ditches, spreads insect pests, and even poses a driving hazard. |
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Karez irrigation system, ranked number one recommended for cultural sites, mostly in arid and semi-arid areas of the world. |
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Long-term follow-up of retrograde colonic irrigation for defaecation disturbances. |
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Due to governmental neglect of irrigation works it burst its banks and caused widespread devastation in Anhwei and Kiangsu. |
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Micro irrigation system is one of the fastest growing segments in irrigation system market. |
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Laminotomy with continuous irrigation in patients with pyogenic spondylitis in thoracic and lumbar spine. |
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The irrigation system the Ottoman state built in Berbera, a port city in Somaliland, is still in use. |
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It is the control variety in a vast number of plant breeding, nematicide, herbicide, ripener, irrigation and disease-screening trials. |
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Stable isotope and groundwater flow dynamics of agricultural irrigation recharge into groundwater resources of the Central Valley, California. |
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He supervises an assistant superintendent, an irrigation technician, a mechanic, and the 12 greenskeepers who do the mowing. |
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Tamez argued that the border wall would cut off farmers of the local Lipan Apache community from a vital water source needed for land irrigation. |
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A randomized trial of postoperative wound irrigation with local anesthetic for pain after cesarean delivery. |
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All of her 20 acres of land is under irrigation, with 15 acres devoted to mango, along with some sapota and tamarind. |
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Their administration greatly encouraged the efforts of the satrapies toward innovative practices in agronomy, arboriculture, and irrigation. |
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The irrigation system uses pressure-compensating bubblers and drip technology. |
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The sight of last night's Chinese shooting out of Fatso's bumhole while she had a colonic irrigation was almost too much to bear. |
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The project will bring under irrigation 14,521 ha of land in the three talukas of Pernem, Bicholim and Bardez. |
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Field performance of halophytic species under irrigation with saline drainage water in the San Joaquin Valley of California. |
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Semiempirical infiltration equation for furrow irrigation systems. |
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