irrigated land
collocation in Englishmeaningsofirrigateandland
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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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land
noun
uk/lænd/us/lænd/
the surface of the earth that is not covered ...
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(Definition ofirrigateandlandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The supply ofirrigatedlandis fixed.
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We include three control variables, that isirrigatedland, population density, and altitude.
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For this reason, the youngest daughter's dowry was a plot ofirrigatedland.
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Irrigation ratio: land quality indicator, measured as the share ofirrigatedlandin total cultivated land.
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Roughly 20 per cent of the world'sirrigatedlandsuffers from salinization, which makes it less productive.
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The model includes two important control variables,irrigatedlandand altitude.
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A cropping pattern is defined, usually with about 20 to 25 per cent ofirrigatedlandfreely chosen and the other part with a compulsory cropping pattern.
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Expanding the production of cultivars with high genetic potential onirrigatedlandwill not work again, because land that can easily be irrigated is already irrigated.
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Thus, the system depended upon the proliferation of productive micro-units within broad stretches ofirrigatedland, which was kept cultivated thanks to a system of short-term leasing.
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That population is being driven out of those overcrowded areas and is spreading away to the only possibility, a newlyirrigatedland.
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But there they had the organisation, the people and the inherited skill of over 6,000 years of the cultivation ofirrigatedland, which is enormously important.
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It is not only because it will produce a vast amount ofirrigatedland; it is not only because it will produce a vast amount of electricity.
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Under current policy we shall lose some 5,000 acres of cultivated land ifirrigatedlandmade unusable through the entry of salt water into the aquifer is taken into account.
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By 1975, redistributed land had amounted to 466,000 hectares (61,000 hectares ofirrigatedland) and undistributed land to 351,000 hectares.
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Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater springs, rural gardens, urban areas, ponds, andirrigatedland.
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The newlyirrigatedlandwould be sold and money would be put into a revolving fund that supported more such projects.
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Its totalirrigatedlandis roughly 1,000 square kilometres.
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Its natural habitats are temperate shrubland, intermittent rivers, intermittent freshwater marshes, temperate desert, pastureland, water storage areas, ponds, andirrigatedland.
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