Irrigation
Irrigation is the artificial process of applying controlled amounts of water to land to assist in production of crops. Irrigation helps to grow agricultural crops, maintain landscapes, and revegetate disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of less than average rainfall. Irrigation also has other uses in crop production, including frost protection, suppressing weed growth in grain fields and preventing soil consolidation. In contrast, agriculture that relies only on direct rainfall is referred to as rain-fed. Irrigation systems are also used for cooling livestock, dust suppression, disposal of sewage, and in mining. Irrigation is often studied together with drainage, …
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ADB: Asian Development Bank · 21 December 2024 English
Development Sector Office (SG-AFNR) Executing Agencies Irrigation and Waterways Department Timetable Concept Clearance …
e61 Institute · 3 May 2024 English
The Occupations of Men and Women We begin our analysis by documenting the type of occupations men and women are employed in, and the extent of occupational sorting. [...] Can …
(General) Tradesperson 3627 Landscape Gardeners and Irrigation Technicians Tradesperson 3631 Senior Aquaculture …
ICRIER: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations · 2 May 2024 English
In this context, the objective of the present study is to estimate the harvest and postharvest losses of wheat, paddy, maize, and soybean in India and to trace the determinants …
state is 7.9 million hectares and with excellent irrigation infrastructure, 98.5 percent of the gross area … producing 129.5 MMT of rice grains. With expansion of irrigation intensity and the green revolution package of … along with HYV variety of cultivation, increased irrigation intensity boosted the production of grain in … agriculturally advanced due to expansion of canal irrigation. The reason of higher manual harvesting in Malwa … is due to power subsidies in some states, free irrigation water availability, intense use of chemical fertilisers …
