Farmers were also subject to a labor tax and were required to work on irrigation or construction projects in a corvée system.

Irrigation is used in the surgical site.

But irrigation facilities need to be developed.

If there are no natural water sources near their plot, then farming is not possible, because no farm by itself is capable of creating an effective irrigation system.

A European firm was contracted to supply electronic irrigation equipment worth 5,830,000 euros under an OPEC loan. Since the patent for the technology of the Valmont irrigation system is American, the machines had to be produced in a third country in order to avoid the manufacturer being sanctioned or fined.

Areas covered include educational approaches aimed at farmers and farm communities technical materials for irrigation professionals irrigation scheme management training courses and policy advice in agricultural water management.

Irrigation equipment testing Desertification and water management Water harvesting technologies Climate monitoring (Risk management) Strategies drought mitigation Refining analytical systems Strategies rehabilitation of degraded lands Efficient irrigation Water recycling

The great aquifers that supply water for irrigation are being depleted.

We have established a full ministry responsible for water development and irrigation.

All right, Cleese erupts in exasperation. But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Experts have been preaching crop diversity, irrigation, and improved soil nutrients for decades.

In other areas, rivers or seasonal surface runoff can be used for irrigation.

The most important problems are drinking and irrigation water, and internal communication roads.

Indohaadde's drug farms are a sophisticated operation involving irrigation systems, fertilizers and herbicides.

In this respect, special attention is being paid to irrigation and soil restoration.

The drip irrigation system had to be small enough that a farmer only had to risk a quarter acre, even if he had two, because it was too frightening, given all that he had at stake.

And there is an automatic irrigation system that makes sure that this sort of landscape of gardens, in one or two years it will sort of transform into a Cambodian temple ruin, completely covered in green.

Had there been more irrigation, the Taliban s gains might have been far less impressive.

WK Yeah, I want to build another one to pump water and irrigation for crops.

There is nothing magic about this combination of high yield seeds, fertilizer, and small scale irrigation.

Harvests may halve and rivers on which irrigation and hydropower depend may become a mere trickle.

The new budget, recognizing the country s acute water crisis, also calls for more money to expand irrigation.

Sprinkling water in front of buildings in the summer is prohibited. Use recycled water for irrigation purposes.

Water In some areas sufficient rainfall is available for crop growth, but many other areas require irrigation.

We look forward to technical assistance from those countries that have expertise in the area of irrigation.

Jordan states that it uses treated effluent from the As Samra wastewater treatment plant for crop irrigation.

History Early focus on irrigation The Institute was originally founded under the name International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI) in 1985 by the Ford Foundation and the Government of Sri Lanka, supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research and the World Bank.

But the Taliban s rapid rise in the 1990 s was inextricably linked to the failure of irrigation systems.

Generally, these countries citizens enjoy services that provide for all water needs, from drinking to irrigation to sanitation.

Benefits from power generation, downstream irrigation, carbon offsets, and reduced floods would be worth roughly twice as much.

The area underwent irrigation improvements during the 1960s and 1970s, and it provides substantial cereal and cotton crops.

From aerial photographs we can discern Dhanyawad I's irrigation channels and storage tanks, centered at the palace site.

Furthermore, 60 million worth of projects covering irrigation, veterinary services, livestock production and cottage industries are being implemented.

In this perspective, special attention is given to irrigation techniques, and to promoting suitable crops and soil rehabilitation.

Aggressive expansion of proven low cost, high impact micro irrigation techniques would do more to help small scale farmers.

Impoverished farmers should receive a free package of seeds, fertilizers, and low cost equipment (such as pumps for irrigation).

(1) Training of Designers of Irrigation and Drainage Systems for Protecting the Drought and Flood Damages in Developing Countries

(Afghanistan) providing training to promote vegetable cultivation at kitchen gardens among impoverished families repairing water channels for irrigation measures.

Surface irrigation water normally contains salts in the order of 0.5 g l or more and the annual irrigation requirement is in the order of 10000 m³ ha or more so the annual import of salt is in the order of 5000 kg ha or more.

From 1965 to 1997, Arab population growth drove demand for agricultural development, leading to a doubling of land under irrigation.

During the Green Revolution of the 1940s to 1970s, billions of dollars had been spent building large scale irrigation systems.

It advocated Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) as the solution, an approach that sought to involve farmers in water management decisions.

Mali was approved in October 2006 for a 461 million program to develop modern irrigation systems and an industrial park.

Rich countries should help African farmers use improved seed varieties, more fertilizer, and better water management, such as small scale irrigation.

In the late 1980s, Grameen started to diversify by attending to underutilized fishing ponds and irrigation pumps like deep tube wells.