irrigated agriculture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofirrigateandagriculture
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irrigate
verb[T]
uk/ˈɪr.ɪ.ɡeɪt/us/ˈɪr.ə.ɡeɪt/
to supply land with water so that crops and plants ...
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agriculture
noun[U]
uk/ˈæɡ.rɪ.kʌl.tʃər/us/ˈæɡ.rə.kʌl.tʃɚ/
farming:
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The existing and potential environmental costs ofirrigatedagriculturewere also estimated and incorporated into the analysis.
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Irrigatedagricultureis one of the most common means to manage resource variability.
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This paper builds upon the theoretical framework from the precision irrigation literature to study the roles of information, institutions, and price incentives inirrigatedagriculture.
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This book provides a timely review of the application of remote sensing toirrigatedagriculture.
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The switch occurs when wild resource biomass recovers to the point that labor required to meet minimum needs are less than forirrigatedagriculture.
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Irrigatedagriculturebased on corn, beans, and squash provides carbohydrates and some protein.
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Continued population growth likely led to further concentration and intensification of riparian andirrigatedagriculturein the most suitable areas.
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If streamflow is correlated with local drought, then the productivity ofirrigatedagriculturewould also suffer.
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Production growth has come about largely inirrigatedagriculture, and the government is increasingly concerned about the exorbitant use of fertilisers in these areas.
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In this area,irrigatedagricultureis quite recent.
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The initial success ofirrigatedagriculturein augmenting wild resources allows population growth.
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At low population levels,irrigatedagricultureis a temporary recovery mechanism that enhances robustness to local droughts.
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Despite the possibilities for the control of subsistence production, particularly in areas withirrigatedagriculture, the most important state revenues were derived elsewhere, from non-agricultural exotic resources.
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Rainfed agriculture, mainly barley cultivation, occupies 23%, urban and associated land occupies 2%, andirrigatedagriculture(from pumped wellwater) occupies only 3%.
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The environmental costs and economic value of water associated with the lowlandirrigatedagricultureare estimated using both the direct and indirect economic valuation approaches.
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Groundwater is the main source of irrigation and the productivity ofirrigatedagricultureis substantially higher than that of un-irrigatedagriculture.
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Although both can be produced from either resource type, wild resources may have higher productivity of type 1 output andirrigatedagriculturemay have higher productivity of type 2 output.
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The social system underpinned byirrigatedagriculturethen 'fails' in the sense that social complexity declines, physical infrastructure deteriorates, and, in some cases, is completely abandoned.
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The growth rates of both resource types are assumed to be 1 as are the productivities in harvesting wild resources and generating output inirrigatedagriculture.
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