Sentence examples for field puddling from inspiring English sources

As an example, a minimum of 600 mm of cumulative rainfall was required to complete field puddling and transplanting of rice in the Philippines, much higher than 150 mm cumulative rainfall required by dry seeding [ 4].

The factors to be considered when choosing equipment are labour costs, ease of handling, damage to crops, water distribution patterns and field puddling.

Larger plantings require field levelling, puddling by ploughing, disking, harrowing and grading.

Bowden said he thought the steady rain, which dotted the field with puddles, diminished F.S.U.'s ability to run the ball.

The grounds crew had put sand on the mound and infield several times by then, but the rain had drenched the field, with puddles collecting on the infield dirt.

Backswimmers were the most abundant predators in both rice field and puddles with a mean collection of 45.7 and 21.8 prespectivelyrespectively.

However, preparing the puddled fields still requires large amounts of water, together with higher costs from labour, farm animals or machines than the preparation of dry fields.

"Puddling" of wetland rice fields (involving destruction of the natural soil structure by intensive tillage when the soil is saturated with water) is done intentionally, inter alia to reduce percolation losses.

After he photographs his centimeter-tall figures in nooks and crannies across London, transforming weeds in concrete cracks into green fields and puddles into lakes, he "abandons" them for good.

Our results showed that rice fields and puddles contrast significantly in the number of aquatic predators and we assume that in the prospect of ovipositing M and S females, these larval sites are different.

A previous study that evaluated differences in the capacity of larvae of the molecular forms to exploit rice fields and puddles in the absence of predators found no evidence for such adaptation when the forms were separated [ 25].