A total of 2,637 dunums of village land were used for cereals, and 16 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

As a result of the Presidential Decree of 1 December 1997, No. 874, on the allocation of 25,000 hectares of land for private plots for citizens, individuals have acquired the right to obtain land for a private plot of up to 0.15 hectare of irrigated land and up to 0.50 hectare of dry land.

Furthermore, less than 5 of agricultural land is irrigated, and improved crop varieties are rarely used.

With only about 5 percent of the land irrigated, Senegal continues to rely on rain fed agriculture, which occupies about 75 percent of the workforce.

Maybe that's one of the reasons why if you fly over west Texas, the types of wells that you're beginning to see don't look unlike those pictures of Kansas and those irrigated plots.

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

Because of the irrigated hubs, the region supported the largest population in the kingdom, which translated into the largest concentration of royal servicemen who could be called into military service.

In 1944 45 a total of 2,486 dunums of village land was used for citrus or bananas, 14,018 was planted with cereals while 226 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

There is a great struggle for use of the most fertile land, from the viewpoint of its social economic potential (irrigated land, next to the markets, with access to diverse transports or social services, etc.).

Agricultural methane emissions, on the other hand, are largely generated from biological decomposition, livestock digestion, anaerobic decomposition of agricultural wastes and anaerobic activity in irrigated rice cultivation.

The University also conducts courses for women in livestock and poultry management, rural credit, post harvest food loss, barani (rain irrigated agricultural area) development, and the efficient use of electricity etc.

Millions of households, with tens of millions of nomadic or semi nomadic people, tend camels, sheep, goats, and other livestock, which they move large distances to reach rain fed pasturelands.

Some 80 of Sudan s oil is in the South, and the country s vast swaths of fertile, naturally irrigated land hold much promise for commercial agriculture.

The spread of irrigated farming and water intensive industries, together with the demands of a rising middle class, have led to a severe struggle for more water.

The tales of colleagues, and even superiors, assaulting soldiers whose lives they are supposed to protect stories that reveal the license that the attackers must have felt they had are harrowing enough.

History 1948 Arab Israeli War Most Israelis refer to the 1948 Arab Israeli War as the War of Independence, while most Arab citizens refer to it as the Nakba (catastrophe), a reflection of differences in perception of the purpose and outcomes of the war.