Sentence examples for poor irrigation practices from inspiring English sources

The agency blames overcultivation, overgrazing, poor irrigation practices and deforestation as the main human-created causes; climate change is likely to play an increasing role in the future.

Several nonparasitic diseases (e.g., oat blast, weakneck of sorghum, straighthead of rice, and crazy-top of cotton) are caused by combinations of environmental factors e.g., high temperatures, moisture stress or poor irrigation practices, imbalance of mineral nutrients, and reduced light.

Many researchers have documented the surface and ground water depletion and pollution in India due to explosive growth and uneven distribution of population, poor irrigation practices, rapid urbanization, large-scale deforestation and improper land use practices (Jaiswal et al. 2003).

A lack of adequate supply, coupled with poor irrigation practices has resulted in poor salinity control.

It has been reported that there are some 99 million ha of saline land throughout the whole country as a direct result of poor or inadequate irrigation practices.

Because most irrigation practices using Wadi Shebelle water are poor and spate irrigation is widely practised, a common management step is to avoid using the Wadi water for several days following increased river flows caused by rainfall in the Ogadan plateau (Ochtman 1975).

That has direct economic consequences". While farmers are moving to more efficient irrigation practices, they still practice wasteful flood irrigation on about 40% of irrigated acreage, said Heather Cooley of the Pacific Institute, an Oakland think tank.

Historically, cotton farmers in Pakistan have wasted water due to poor irrigation methods and technology.

Changing irrigation practices can improve water efficiency by 30%, says Chandra Madramootoo, of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage.

The study provides evidence to support the view that the opportunistic use of wastewater and irrigation practices, in general, will continue even under highly evolving peri-urban conditions, to meet the livelihood needs of the poor driven by market demands, as urban sprawl expands into cultivable rural hinterlands.

The region was poor, irrigation was inadequate the family often went hungry and there were few roads.