Irrigated farmland values dropped by 2 percent in the fourth quarter compared to a year earlier, while non-irrigated farmland dropped by 4 percent, according to the bank's survey.
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SRI is used on both irrigated and non-irrigated land, meaning it is possible to cultivate rice even in Mali's desert, pilots conducted by the U.S. Agency for International Development have shown.
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Irrigated farming generates greenhouse gases like any kind of farming does.
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Those include things like bee keeping and cultivation of irrigated vegetables.
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In Niger, for instance, just 0.2% of agricultural land is irrigated.
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Currently just three percent of all irrigable land in Niger is irrigated.
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We have greenery all around us, irrigated through a rainwater harvesting system.
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Opium poppies must be irrigated, well-fertilized, must get regular applications of pesticides.
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Happily for Mostero, Dominus grapes are more mouth-watering than their irrigated counterparts.
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The Beartooth Ranch spans 12,350 acres of irrigated meadows, pastures, and pine foothills.
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Overall, the state's agriculture industry represents around 288 million acres of irrigated crops.
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Farming remains precarious in a continent with variable weather and little irrigated land.
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Instead, a meticulously planned second level of soil sits on raised, irrigated beds.
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Half of the gardens will be irrigated with rainwater runoff from the building.
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Water management, and the agricultural production it has sustained, have irrigated China's economic miracle.
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Only 4% of cropland was irrigated; fertiliser use was 10% of the world average.
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Maize fields, which are widely irrigated, should suffer from increasing restrictions on water use.
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Yet further downstream, women in conical hats work in fields irrigated by the river.
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For the sober set, there are dozens of golf courses irrigated with desalinated water.
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The video taken a month ago irrigated the farmland and sowed wheat immediately. pic.twitter.
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That's three times more than corn, or any other irrigated crop, the researchers wrote.
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To have 1,500 irrigated acres of crops, you need about 5,000 acre-feet of water.
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Farmers have moved here from the mountains, seeking new futures on all the irrigated land.
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They irrigated fields of taro, sugar cane, sweet potato and coconut trees with intricate ditches.
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They work in factories and lush, irrigated fields in an area that is otherwise arid.
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And, unlike with California pistachios, the trees are never irrigated, making the flavor more intense.
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Crops must be irrigated and harvested, animals watered, freezers and coolers kept cold and offices run.
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These technologies have then been applied in over 1.7 million acres of irrigated croplands across Nebraska.
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Contact lenses should be removed and the eyes thoroughly irrigated for at least 5 -10 minutes.
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The WaterSMART Program improves water infrastructure to sustain communities and irrigated agriculture while also supporting nature.
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The area, if irrigated, could grow wheat, cotton, rice, sugarcane, maize, and other crops, said Goraya.
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On average, small-scale farmers in the irrigated area cultivate tiny plots of about 200 square meters.
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Widespread water restrictions, including for farms, are also affecting conditions for French maize, which is often irrigated.
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Rice and wheat make up 81 percent of Punjab's irrigated crops, according to a report by PAU.
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Before this system was in place, Mr Rogers would have irrigated his farm about once a week.
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The indoor farms are irrigated with rainwater, and some of the energy is generated from solar panels.
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William's makeshift wind turbine brought lights to their home and a water pump that irrigated their tobacco fields.
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Since the 1970s enormous farms growing irrigated crops such as cotton and nuts had spread across the basin.
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Tunisia devotes most of its fertile irrigated farmland to durum wheat, and imports mainly soft wheat and barley.
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Trees need to be planted in the right soil conditions, inoculated with truffle fungus, and often irrigated constantly.
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These communities farmed crops like maize, beans, squash, and quinoa, often in irrigated terraces built on mountain slopes.
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The apples at his Twin Star Orchards are "dry farmed," not irrigated, to concentrate their flavors and acids.
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The grounds were professionally landscaped, with irrigated gardens, hundreds of trees, lagoons, waterfalls and a picturesque chicken coop.
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But Practical Action officials said more "lasting solutions" to elephant invasions of irrigated farmland needed to be worked out.
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Daily, the irrigated farms see a three to seven degree smaller range in temperatures compared to other land use.
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This study is the first to find a connection between irrigated farms in the Midwest and an altered climate.
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In arid Petorca, every cultivated hectare of avocados requires 100,000 liters of irrigated water a day, according to WaterAid.
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The average irrigated farm in Yuma County today is about 210,2000 acres, while dryland farms run 3,000 to 5,000 acres.
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This is increasingly being irrigated by solar-powered deep wells, which are increasing the rate at which groundwater is falling.
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His talk is crisply aphoristic and irrigated with an easy flow of statistics: each proposition has its instantly associated number.
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In the north of Mexico, where large corn fields are irrigated, climate change may initially have little impact, studies show.
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In the north of Mexico, where large corn fields are irrigated, climate change may initially have little impact, studies show.
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She tilled the soil, sowed the seeds, irrigated the earth and waited for the bushy green hemp plants to sprout.
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The rough exurbs of Cape Town yielded to an amber veld with patches of irrigated green; hills rose and fell.
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But even irrigated vineyards can't fully compensate for mother nature, especially in the drought-savaged Hunter region of New South Wales.
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Only about 20153% of arable land south of the Sahara is irrigated, so local weather patterns determine what can be grown.
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Man-made dams, and the diversion of water to irrigated agriculture, have had a significant impact on biodiversity, Dr. Kingsford said.
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We had to put up signs that said, 'This is irrigated with recycled water,' so people wouldn't get mad at us.
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As of now, only 100,000 acres of land get irrigated from the Hirakud dam and the Cuttack delta is flooded every year.
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Scrub where sheep once grazed is being given over to intensive dairy farms—some of them irrigated to help the pasture grow.
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The state estimates around two-thirds of all Californians and millions of acres of irrigated farmland rely on the delta for water.
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According to IWMI, only 7 percent of sub-Saharan Africa's farmland is irrigated, the lowest proportion of irrigation anywhere in the world.
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Even in Israel, just south of the shrinking Sea of Galilee, swathes of irrigated land are covered in plastic-draped banana plantations.
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Approximately 1,700 acres are prime irrigated cropland, and the ranch controls an abundance of senior water rights, according to Hall and Hall.
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This year's first poppy harvest season has just begun, and the bright red flowers are garish splotches across the heavily irrigated landscape.
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Dry farming Today, there are urban farms without soil, where plant roots are misted rather than irrigated, with a water saving of 95%.
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Some of the central areas are agricultural communities where farmland has been left fallow in recent years due to cutbacks in irrigated water.
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But up to 29 million hectares in the East African nation alone potentially could be irrigated, said Ruth Meinzen-Dick, an IFPRI researcher.
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France's maize production includes both rain-fed and irrigated fields, making yields dependent on rainfall during the season and availability of water reserves.
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This is because 60 percent of Nebraska corn is irrigated, but 60 percent of the fields sampled on the tour are dry land.
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As the sunrise spilled across sagebrush plains and irrigated cornfields, it also illuminated a narrow band of yellow-brown clouds on the horizon.
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For example, a farmer might find through time-lapse drone photography that part of his or her crop is not being properly irrigated.
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OUTDOOR SPACE The property is about 22011 acres, with more than 22 vines yielding dessert and table wines, irrigated by a domestic well.
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According to Mashaba residents, up to 60 elephants now appear to see the village's irrigated fields as one of their main sources of food.
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But average yields of irrigated wheat—common in countries such as China and India—could drop by 4% and maize harvests would fall everywhere.
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This is because, besides electricity generation, Gibe III will support a vast irrigation complex, equal in size to the entire irrigated area of Kenya.
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Historically, hives did better around agriculture, he said, because irrigated fields kept flowers blooming, and beekeepers would shift the bees around to avoid pesticides.
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He used to spend 150,000 Ugandan shillings ($40) a month - 15 percent of his salary - to fuel a water pump which irrigated his fields.
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Its Shatt al-Arab river watered copious marshlands, and in the 53s irrigated some 10m palm trees, whose dates were considered the world's finest.
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More than 6003 percent of the country's irrigated agriculture and 85 percent of drinking water supplies are dependent on groundwater, the World Bank estimates.
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The U.N. agency now wants to reach 385,000 farmers who can grow crops on land that can be irrigated during the current drier weather.
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Add them all together, and they'd cover an area roughly the size of Florida, making grass the most common irrigated plant in the country.
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On the thousands of acres he farms, workers carefully drop young tomato plants into perfectly-formed holes, irrigated by underground strips to save water.
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As the images above show, the growth of Dubai on land has been no less dramatic, with barren desert replaced by irrigated land and roads.
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In response, some have turned to other sources of income like vegetables which require less water and can be irrigated with water fetched from ponds.
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On Thursday, the CDC said that indeed, samples taken from canal water that irrigated the Yuma growing fields were laced with the same deadly bacteria.
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Silwad's 7,19483 residents, looking across the road, might covet Ofra's idyllic subdivisions, with rows of red-roofed bungalows shrouded by enviably irrigated gardens and backyards.
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The villages around Lakari, nestled amid irrigated cropland along the winding Helmand River about 90 miles from Pakistan, formed a Taliban and drug-runners' stronghold.
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Like the bazaar, about a mile to the south, the patrol base was situated just outside the irrigated cropland, at the edge of the steppe.
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In water-stressed areas, crops can be irrigated more efficiently by delivering water precisely to plant roots through drip systems, cutting down on the amount required.
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In Myanmar, farmers rely heavily on the monsoon rain, and the country has one of the lowest percentages of irrigated farmland in Asia, according to Proximity.
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Climate change is likely to mean that more rain-fed farmland—at present estimated to make up about 228% of the world's total—will be irrigated.
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Though cotton still grows along State Route 87, irrigated and satiny, today the fields are mostly scenery for guards to pass on their way to work.
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Her family owns hundreds of acres of precious irrigated land outside Beatrice, with tax bills that she said were likely to increase by $10,000 or more.
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Excess wax buildup can usually be safely softened with warm olive or almond oil or irrigated with warm water, though specialized softening drops are also sold.
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" In language reminiscent of Donald Trump's diatribes about black neighborhoods, D'Souza described inner cities as places where "the streets are irrigated with alcohol, urine, and blood.
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As drought makes grass and other fodder harder to find, elephants have begun invading the village's tempting irrigated fields, destroying crops and irrigation canals and exasperating farmers.
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The rangers advised digging one-meter-deep trenches around the irrigated fields and using a traditional technique of putting piles of smoldering cow dung along their perimeter.
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Repeated attempts to settle populations and introduce large-scale irrigated farming have a history of failure in the region, not least because they have often involved coercion.
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A new study in Tuesday's Global Change Biology finds that irrigated farms in the Central Sands region of Wisconsin that grow vegetables, significantly cool the local climate.
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They didn't change the way the land was irrigated or improve certain conditions about the land, but they allowed this place to be essentially a free space.
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Indeed, the malbecs I tasted from Mendoza from clay soils, especially if the clay was highly irrigated and fertilized, were dark, sweet, fruity and high in alcohol.
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For example, evaporation and subsequent moisture flows from large-scale irrigated farming in India contribute up to 40% of rainfall in East Africa, according to the paper.
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His family lived comfortably from its farmland of just over 2 acres (0.8 hectares), growing vegetables, coconuts and millet irrigated by the Cauvery river and the rain.
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But this fertile, naturally irrigated farmland sits atop another resource that has become more highly prized: a deposit of fine silica sand known as St. Peter sandstone.
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To farm bugs, forests do not need to be cleared, fields do not need to be irrigated, and crops need not be sprayed with toxins and pesticides.
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In Yorkville, a 1,140-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bath apartment with an irrigated terrace and skyline views, on the 11th floor of a 1960s doorman building.
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Today, India has a bustling, high-tech economy, its fields are irrigated, and an expanding road network means that food can be distributed rapidly when there are shortages.
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While other organs can last for hours without blood, the brain needs to be irrigated so desperately that even minutes of drought wilts its tissue, causing a stroke.
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At the time, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (now the Turkish president) said the project would "bring big gains to the local people," including jobs and irrigated farmland.
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Here in Peru, the government irrigated the desert and turned it into farmland through an $825 million project that, in a few decades, could be under serious threat.
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The first phase of the project started in 1985 with a 22-mile canal that irrigated a valley and brought a large hydroelectric plant, providing electricity to residents.
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In the early 2500s, Peru began a second phase, which irrigated two more valleys and created a water treatment plant that served 250 percent of the surrounding population.
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Even as the amount of irrigated acres more than doubled, from around 40,000 to 100,000, the potential consequences for the valley's water supply weren't yet apparent to them.
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There is a tribal figure in "Desert" (2017) who stands off to the left in what looks like sternly demarcated plots of ground being irrigated by water sprinklers.
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He said the power cuts would also hit farmers, particularly those who are in the process of planting irrigated winter wheat, the country's second main staple crop after maize.
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Production costs are much lower in Vietnam and Thailand, which are blessed with wide plains irrigated by large river systems that allow them to churn out large rice surpluses.
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Though technically a desert, bounded by rivers flowing from the mountains into the Río Negro, the region was irrigated by canals dug by British colonists in the 19th century.
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There, residents are now trying to encourage their young people to stay by building a watering system that has turned 15 hectares of arable land into irrigated farm plots.
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For ARC, the bill calls for payments to be calculated based on actual yield data, as well as the county where farms are located and if fields are irrigated.
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He pointed to the Mezquital Valley, north of Mexico City, where vast swathes of agricultural land are irrigated - and fertilised - by copious quantities of untreated wastewater from the capital.
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EDIA estimates foreign investors already work on an estimated 25,000 hectares, a quarter of all Alqueva-irrigated lands in use, having put 250 million euros into crops and equipment.
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A World Bank-mediated arrangement known as the Indus Water Treaty splits the Indus River and its tributaries - which 80 percent of Pakistan's irrigated agriculture depends on - between the countries.
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The California drought in 2015 alone was forecast to result in the fallowing of 542,000 irrigated acres, according to an update last year from the University of California at Davis.
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I knew where I was, just at the rise toward Deep Creek, Pine Creek, Barney Creek, and so on; I could smell the irrigated hay fields on the night air.
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Turf grass (meaning mowed) is now the nation's largest irrigated crop; we grow three times as much turf grass as we do corn, and far more than any other country.
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The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), a think-tank, estimates that this could result in as much as 15% of the valley's 5.2m acres of irrigated cropland lying fallow.
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In order to boost productivity the government has begun resettling semi-nomadic cattle herders from the Lower Omo basin into permanent villages along irrigated canals—a controversial process known as "villagisation".
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"For states exhibiting declines in the value of non-irrigated farmland, the changes remained modest through the end of 2018, providing ongoing support to the farm sector," said the KC Fed.
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"With the growing trends of water use for industry, community water supply, rapid urbanization, (and) rapid growth of irrigated areas, definitely sustainability will be questionable," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) estimates that more than a million hectares of small farms are now irrigated in the region, based on limited government data and satellite images.
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Pakistan has opposed some of these projects saying they violate the World Bank-mediated treaty on the sharing of the Indus waters, upon which 80 percent of its irrigated agriculture depends.
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It was behind a $1.9 billion irrigation project called Chavimochic that irrigated a section of desert on Peru's northern coast and paved the way for the export of asparagus and strawberries.
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One of a handful of Tudors in the neighborhood, this house is set back from the street on a raised corner lot, with a lawn irrigated by a reclaimed-water system.
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But irrigation is underused in sub-Saharan Africa, where just 7 percent of farmland is irrigated, the lowest proportion of any region of the world, according to the International Water Management Institute.
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After decades of heavy irrigation that boosted yields in India, for instance, the country is now grappling with big declines in groundwater that threaten the sustainability of irrigated farming in some regions.
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In 2016-2017, more than 2,375 hectares of farmland in Malawi began being irrigated for the first time, with more than half of that land in the hands of small-scale farmers.
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Reached by a narrow dirt path cut through humid jungle, her wooden hut on stilts is surrounded by pepper plants irrigated by a drainage canal, along with orange, plantain and cacao trees.
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Then we drove on a ring road on the outskirts of Jos, pulling off eventually on a dirt road surrounded by irrigated tomato farms and dried-up stalks of corn and sorghum.
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"Before being connected to the solar grid, we irrigated our crops using diesel pumps and traveled as far as Gwanda (more than 100km away) to buy diesel for the pumps," she said.
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He has refurbished an old well used by his father to hold water in the days before this area was irrigated, and he is building a new one near his asparagus fields.
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Human activity has deforested, replanted and irrigated large areas of land, added pollution to the skies, depleted the ozone layer and, yes, changed the concentrations of key greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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The apartment was also configured to have an open, loft-like flow with lots of light from the oversize windows and skylights and ready access to the six irrigated and landscaped terraces.
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On a recent Tuesday, amid a sea of handmade furniture, folksy artworks and vertical gardens irrigated by rainwater captured on the roof, eight Etsy employees showed us how they create their looks.
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Of the Mekong delta's 18.6m people, about a fifth of Vietnam's population, more than three-quarters work in agriculture; on its roughly 4m irrigated hectares, the average farm size is just 1.2 hectares.
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The plants themselves are grown on long tables in individually climate-controlled rooms, in a special nutrient mixture, irrigated with water that's been fed through a reverse osmosis system to remove any impurities.
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To this day, 80 percent of all pastures and vineyards in Valais are irrigated with water from the bisses, while the paths that run alongside them are excellent for walking or trail running.
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Some 25 out of around 90 administrative departments in France have adopted limits on water use including for agriculture, which could affect harvest yields for summer crops like maize that are often irrigated.
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"Farmers in irrigated regions may experience more abrupt temperature increases that will cause them to have to adapt more quickly than other groups who are already coping with a warming climate," says Christopher Kucharik.
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Although Espirito Santo forced irrigated coffee farms to ration water early in 2016, the state capital of Vitoria began restricting water supplies in 58 neighborhoods last week for the first time in its history.
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Back in 2009, an American report by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration based on satellite images showed a sharp decrease in groundwater levels under northern India's irrigated fields of wheat, rice and barley.
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She argues that the government—and aid donors who account for the bulk of public spending in many areas—need to do more to increase the 4% farmland that is irrigated for commercial use.
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The temperature difference should be taken into account for future forecasts as this difference is often overlooked and that might be particularly important in this region that has seen a rapid expansion of irrigated agriculture.
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During the height of the recent drought, Sacramento dumped over 1 trillion gallons of fresh water into the Sacramento Delta — water that could have gone to homes, farms and businesses, irrigated land and mitigated fires.
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A study in 2014 found that 39 out of 55 areas using sewage irrigation were contaminated by cadmium, arsenic and other poisons and that the accumulation of heavy metals in intensively irrigated areas was rising.
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Of course, most of those vineyards in Napa were irrigated, and the researchers don't know how much water the wineries used, so they can't tell the wineries how much they can afford to cut back.
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Pakistan has opposed some of these projects before, saying they violate a World Bank-mediated treaty on the sharing of the Indus river and its tributaries upon which 80 percent of its irrigated agriculture depends.
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"If crops continue to be irrigated using the river water, it is not going to last long and there will be severe crisis during the summer season," warned Laxmi Giri, the Tikamgahr municipal corporation president.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Ag Credit update last month reported that irrigated farmland values are down 5 to 7 percent from a year ago in some Midwest states, including Kansas and Nebraska.
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The majority of farms are flood-irrigated from the Nile, using the ancient technique of allowing water to flood over the land with little control, leading to huge losses in water to runoff and evaporation.
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From the mid-43s, successive governments brought in poor families from outside areas, gave them free land to farm, and provided irrigated water through a system of reservoirs and canals, under a national development program.
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All in all, the Afghan authorities in Nangarhar said, by the time of his murder his canals had improved the livelihood of nearly a million people, and irrigated nearly 60,000 acres of previously arid land.
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She argues that the government—and aid donors who account for the bulk of public spending in many areas—need to do more to increase the 4% of farmland that is irrigated for commercial use.
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ISIS propaganda videos extoll the virtues of its agricultural production, with shots of grain silos full to the brim with seed, farmers toiling in well-irrigated fields, and workers filling sacks of grain to make bread.
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Australia's west coast wine country has been spared the dry weather, and irrigated vineyards in the east also have a cushion against the kind of steep production shortfalls seen last season in South Africa and Europe.
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Over the past 40 years there has been a series of plans to build a Red Sea-Dead Sea canal that would have irrigated the Jordan Valley and generated power, none of which have been built.
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It's essential to ask, like Paul, why one should buy a chardonnay from the Sonoma Coast or Meursault when one can buy a much cheaper California chardonnay from the fertile, irrigated fields of the Central Valley.
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But Agriculture Ministry spokesman Hameed al-Naief told the AP that only 5,000 dunams (1,236 acres) of irrigated land could be allocated to the crop this summer, less than 3 percent of the area permitted last year.
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The ruins of the world's largest gravity-based canal system, built more than 3,000 years ago by the Hohokam people, still dot the landscape, evidence of a network that once irrigated more than 20,000 acres of farmland.
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For Sarki and other women in Jumla district in Karnali province - the poorest in Nepal, and with less than a quarter of its land irrigated - the new solar water pump is helping make a tough life easier.
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Areas irrigated by Alqueva now stretch almost from the Atlantic coast to the Spanish border, creating what EDIA chief Jose Salema calls "a green barrier to desertification", a phenomenon that threatens swathes of southern and central Europe.
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The United Nations cultural agency (UNESCO) put Kenya's Lake Turkana, on its list of endangered World Heritage Sites last week because of the "disruptive effect" of an existing Ethiopian dam and irrigated sugar estates over Kenya's northern border.
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If she can get someone to take the place off her hands, the buyer will score 5 beds, 7 baths and a ton of modern-day luxury -- like its own elevator, a sauna, gym and an irrigated terrace.
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The Kongs, who treat Explosion like a familial plot of land to be irrigated with Deng-era watchwords — economic "development zone"; "central policy directives"; Reform and Opening Up campaign — do not only want to install a new dynasty.
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But even though the science itself is sound, he wishes that the study authors had made it clearer that the Napa wineries were irrigated — so the findings don't mean the grapes will survive a dry spell without being watered.
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Those who chose India had to contend with a government intent on land redistribution; in 1972, new laws banned ownership of plots of irrigated land exceeding seven hectares — about 17 acres — and, to add insult to injury, outlawed hunting.
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"We irrigated on time, applied fertilisers like last year, but still yield was 30 percent lower this year as scanty rainfall hit productivity," said Dnyaneshwar Bagal, a farmer from the western state of Maharashtra, whose cane was harvested earlier this month.
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The survey, which looked at farmland in other Federal Reserve districts in the farm belt, found there were slight decreases in the value of non-irrigated cropland in many states in the fourth quarter of 2018 but also some notable increases.
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Efforts to boost the amount of farmland being irrigated in Malawi face challenges, however, from lack of cash to insecure land tenure and shortages of electricity needed to power irrigation pumps, the result of drought hitting the country's hydroelectric dams.
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The policy, which was delayed more than a decade, covers an array of water-related issues: from the impact of climate change to hydropower, from transboundary water-sharing to irrigated and rain-fed agriculture, and from drinking water to sanitation.
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It was irrigated by a lawn sprinkler mounted on a pole that spritzed water over less than a hectare of poppies and fertilizer bags were piled nearby, basic farming techniques the soldiers nevertheless said were a sign of growers' new sophistication.
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European fruit growers, Spanish olive oil makers, almond and berry farmers from California and Chile, and many others are moving in to rival local farmers on these irrigated lands, whose prices soared by 25 percent in the past five years.
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An outbreak of malaria in Greece in 2011 also was effectively contained after health experts looked for other areas like the outbreak region – with warm temperatures, low elevation and irrigated fields – and created a map used to target mosquito spraying campaigns, Semenza said.
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New Mexico&aposs governor issued a drought declaration this month, groundwater levels are dropping across much of Arizona as crops are being irrigated, and the price of hay has doubled in southwest Colorado as fires persist in other parts of that state.
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As a result, rice can be grown on the newly irrigated land for two seasons a year instead of the typical one - keeping young people busy, said Touré, a member of a small group of Kouna residents who oversee the irrigation project.
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The Colorado is the primary source of water for Yuma's irrigated crops, and yet, hiding behind the bad news of the E.coli outbreak, was even more bad news — the river is drying up, with peak flow this spring at a historic low.
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In the 10th District, there were declines of 4 percent in irrigated farmland value in the second quarter compared with a year ago, although Nebraska fared worse with a 7 percent drop due to pressure from the slump in corn and soybean prices.
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I was able to learn firsthand from him that understanding basic principles of fluid dynamics and mechanics could mean the difference between seeing water flooding a street because of a burst pipe or enjoying the fruits of a well-irrigated farm field.
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At W Magazine's Globes party on Thursday at the Chateau Marmont — a soiree liberally irrigated with Dom Pérignon and celebrities (oh look, it's Cate Blanchett here, Kristen Wiig there, and it-girl Alicia Vikander yonder) — awards watchistas merrily toasted the wackadoodleness of the year.
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"We expected to find the system much more resilient because 28 percent of production is now irrigated in the United States, and because we've abandoned corn production in more severely drought-stricken places such as Oklahoma and west Texas," noted Elliott in a press release.
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Groundwater now accounts for 60% of India's irrigated area; agriculture's share of total energy use climbed from 10% in 1970 to 30% by 1995—encouraged in part by the cheap or free electricity that Indian politicians love to lavish on rural voters when elections loom.
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And she wrote the names of several of my films, put them in a hat, and each morning I would take a little paper and choose a film, and she would ask me to remember the main feeling which irrigated my performance in the film.
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Your questions answered Last year, Columbia University-led research said many parts of India experience "chronic water stress due to heavy-water extraction for irrigated agriculture," noting that in the states of Punjab and Haryana in particular, rice growing is demanding increasing amounts of irrigation.
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The 1974 film fictionalised the California Water Wars – a period during which water stolen from Owens Valley irrigated LA. Quickly the movie community would use all the water, until more and more was needed, while the city looked more like paradise but was a depleted husk underneath.
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The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) told Reuters late on Tuesday that the June-September monsoon season - critical for the half of the country's farmland that is not irrigated - was likely to bring more rain than its previous forecast as concerns over the El Nino weather condition had eased.
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