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Karnataka, and other regions thrive on irrigation and generally practice multiple or double cropping. With irrigation, a large variety of crops can be produced...

Dryland farming and dry farming encompass specific agricultural techniques for the non-irrigated cultivation of crops. Dryland farming is associated with...

lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has been developed by many cultures around the world. Irrigation helps...

the Ord River Scheme. The Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA), which was originally known as the Ord River Irrigation Scheme (ORIS) or Ord River Project,...

Desert farming is the practice of developing agriculture in deserts. As agriculture depends upon irrigation and water supply, farming in arid regions where...

Center-pivot irrigation (sometimes called central pivot irrigation), also called water-wheel and circle irrigation, is a method of crop irrigation in which...

intensive farming with continuous cover and polyculture. Crop irrigation accounts for 70% of the world's fresh water use. Flood irrigation, the oldest...

Contour bunding or contour farming or contour ploughing is the farming practice of plowing and/or planting across a slope following its elevation contour...

granary system and widespread silk farming. Water-powered grain mills were in use by the 1st century BC, followed by irrigation. By the late 2nd century, heavy...

or platforms, which resemble steps, for the purposes of more effective farming. This type of landscaping is therefore called terracing. Graduated terrace...

self-help groups. Irrigation is carried out on individual or on group farms averaging 0.1-0.4 ha. There are about 3,000 smallholder irrigation schemes covering...

improved seeds and improved farming technologies now largely depends on whether India develops infrastructure such as irrigation network, flood control systems...

The Farming and Irrigation Artifacts Museum (simplified Chinese: 农田水利文物陈列馆; traditional Chinese: 農田水利文物陳列館; pinyin: Nóngtián Shuǐlì Wénwù Chénliè Guǎn)...

rivers flow through Zeerust, the Klein-Marico and the Karee spruit. Irrigation farming just outside the town relies on these water bodies. In Zeerust there...

have developed the skill of farming using the river sources, hence the utilization of the Dawa River for irrigated farming. There are small ponds built...

on and have concluded that they were an irrigation system, unique in Mexico. Only vestiges of these irrigation canals remain; however, the archeological...

Some oil-rich middle east countries operate corporate farming including large-scale irrigation of desert lands for cropping, sometimes through partially...

Three-fifths of this agriculture occurs only during the rainy season. Irrigation farming is restricted to areas such as the Apatzingán Valley, the Bajío area...

facilities-construction costs; settlers were inexperienced in irrigation farming; waterlogging of irrigable lands required expensive drainage projects; and projects...

studies have found that no-till farming can be more profitable in some cases. In some cases it may reduce labour, fuel, irrigation and machinery costs. No-till...