Sentence examples for inadequate rainfall from inspiring English sources
The famine, the first in 20 years, is due to a number of factors such as poverty, inadequate rainfall and conflict.
The central plateau of Castile-León is endowed with naturally fertile soils, but drought is common because of inadequate rainfall, and in many areas irrigation is needed to produce good crops.
The island's thin soil and inadequate rainfall adversely affected the quantity and quality of its sugar crop; these factors made production less profitable than on other Caribbean islands, where large areas of fertile soil and adequate rainfall created lucrative sugar plantations that evolved into societies with a large labouring class.
They are limited by frost, water logging, inadequate rainfall, scorching temperature, terrain steepness and/ or occupied land cover/use types.
A typical pattern usually emerges - inadequate rainfall amounts result in low natural pasture production on which livestock depend.
Conversely, capital investment and agricultural impacts have no impact on production in non-equilibrium systems if there is inadequate rainfall (Ellis and Swift 1988; Behnke et al. 1993; von Wehrden et al. 2012).
In ancient Israel, and still for most of the world today, a "bad judgment" amounting to inadequate and/or untimely rainfall is nothing short of disastrous.
There are no wastewater treatment plants and sewer systems are inadequate: even a moderate rainfall turns the streets into foul rivers.
However, rainfall and inadequate finances to invest in capital intensive practices such as irrigation are key limiting factors hindering enclosure owners in the location.
In the study area, some of the water harvesting techniques has been developed for growing crops or for rehabilitation and development of rangelands, where rainfall is inadequate for rain fed agriculture and irrigation water is lacking.
During the agricultural season 2009-2010, rainfall was inadequate both in quantity and in geographical distribution, which led to a severe drop in harvest and livestock production.
