Sentence examples for crops for water from inspiring English sources
They also block weeds that would otherwise compete with crops for water.
Weeds seem to benefit more than cereals at temperate latitudes, so they provide more competition to food crops for water, sunlight and nutrients.
Up to a depth of 1.10 m, shrubs did not compete with crops for water but preferentially extracted water from the lower portion of the profile below 1.10 m and even beyond the maximum measured depth of 3.5 m.
Agricultural irrigation water extracted for grain crops should be preferentially guaranteed to ensure food security, in spite of higher economic compensation in other cash crops' irrigation for water coordination.
Several options that would lower agricultural water consumption while maintaining the current output of food energy were assessed based on the demands of individual crops for irrigation water.
The river's banks proved to be riddled with clues like this, subtle remnants of the humans who had relied on it – for transport and power, for the farmers' crops, for drinking water, for survival.
Plastic film-mulching techniques have been widely used over a variety of agricultural crops for saving water and improving yield.
In tree-based intercropping systems, trees, especially hybrid poplars (HP), can compete with crops for light, water and nutrients, resulting in a decrease in crop production.
Bioenergy feedstock may compete with food crops for land, water, and nutrient resources, resulting in higher prices for food as well as potential increases in malnutrition and food insecurity.
A model that is flexible enough to simulate any agroforestry system globally should be able to address competition and complementarity above and below ground between trees and crops for light, water and nutrients.
In the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Lower Colorado River Accounting System (LCRAS), crop classifications derived from remote sensing are used to calculate regional estimates of crop evapotranspiration for water monitoring and management activities on the lower Colorado River basin.
