But irrigation facilities need to be developed.

The need for irrigation led the Sumerians, and later the Akkadians, to build their cities along the Tigris and Euphrates and the branches of these rivers.

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

Peasant farmers need the benefits of fertilizer, irrigation, and high yield seeds, all of which were a core part of China s economic takeoff.

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

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.

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.

These pooled funds would enable farmers in poor countries to obtain the fertilizer, improved seed varieties, and small scale irrigation equipment that they urgently need.

Irrigation is used in the surgical site.

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

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.

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

There is also a need to intensify efforts to develop water and land related technologies for irrigation and water desalination, using solar energy technologies, and to develop pollution control measures, including integrated programmes for pest management and the control of chemical pollution.

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

Rainwater harvesting is also widely employed as a relatively low cost option, both for household use and for small scale irrigation.

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

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.

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

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

Furthermore, the Royal Irrigation Department has organized the annual award for cooperative leaders with the most effective water resource management skills.

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.

Wastewater and organic solid waste can be transformed into resources for growing agriculture products the former can be used for irrigation, the latter as fertilizer.

Yet part of that increased agricultural output resulted from millions of wells that were sunk to tap underground water supplies for irrigation.

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

Several northern Mediterranean countries have made an inventory of traditional techniques for growing olive trees, protecting old terraces and repairing old irrigation systems.

The pressure is increasing on dryland ecosystems for the provision of services such as food, forage, fuel, building materials, and water for humans and livestock, for irrigation, and for sanitation.

The decisions also set out specific actions for better water management, including more efficient irrigation, and for training farmers and water users associations in efficient water use.

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.

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.

For example, agricultural activities can be greatly enhanced through more mature technologies such as small scale irrigation, quality fertilizers, farm mechanization and enhanced crop seed.

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

Last year, China signed 14 bilateral agreements with Cambodia, totaling 1.2 billion, to finance every conceivable item, from irrigation canals to uniforms for the Cambodian military.

Farm water may include water used in the irrigation of crops, water used to leach harmful salts from agricultural fields and water used for environmental management.

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.

This program is conducted under a bidding process using a formula where farmers request a certain percentage of cost share for an improvement such as drip irrigation.

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

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