Sentence examples for irrigated acreage from inspiring English sources

However, 10 years later (i.e., in 1979 1980), the share of groundwater in the total irrigation activities had risen to 11.5 % when the total irrigated acreage grew to 1.60 million hectares (Bhuiyan 1984).

Although many farms have installed drip irrigation and improved their water-use efficiency in recent decades, nearly 50percentt of all the irrigated acreage in California still uses inefficient flood-and-furrow irrigation, in which fields are covered by standing water.

The government has ambitious plans to extend the country's irrigated acreage.

An active and ongoing construction program nearly doubled that number by the late 1980s, adding substantially to the country's total irrigated acreage.

This "Midwest expansion" scenario also assumes that irrigated acreage in each of the 12 states is increased by 10 percentage points over the irrigated acreage in the baseline case.

There are two ways to increase this amount: One is to change farming practices by, say, increasing the amount of cultivated or irrigated acreage.

Still, he took some pride in comparing the squatters' drought-stricken maize patches — sunburned leaves rattling on dry, stubby stalks — with his own well-irrigated acreage, with its tall, fat-eared yield.

In the 2013 baseline, the water intensity of corn ethanol in Iowa (with 1% irrigated corn acreage) was 5.5 L/L, while that in neighboring Nebraska (with 56% irrigated corn acreage) was 427 L/L.

It is also assumed that the fraction of irrigated corn acreage in each of these 12 states will increase by 10 percentage points.

Under that scenario, experts say, irrigated farm acreage would plunge...

High-voltage transmission lines and feeder lines to rural areas extend throughout the province and have substantially increased the supply of rural electric power, as well as the amount of electrically irrigated and drained acreage.