Sentence examples for rainfed cropping from inspiring English sources

According to the team's estimations, if the country could implement rainfed cropping for the quarter of those lands, the annual production of cereals could rise by 0.8 million ton, which corresponds to 5percentt of the current production level.

Based on these data, the study first produced accurate reference cropland layers or RCLs (cropland extent/areas, irrigation versus rainfed, cropping intensities, crop dominance, and croplands versus cropland fallows) for the year 2014 that provided an overall accuracy of around 90% for crop extent in different agro-ecological zones (AEZs).

Estimated losses in economic contribution will be highest in the agricultural sector, and in particular with commercial fenced ranching, and rainfed cropping.

This paper develops a new general equilibrium framework which, unlike the existing global CGE models, disaggregates irrigated and rainfed cropping industries to examine the role of potential irrigation constraints in biofuel-induced land use changes.

Extensive livestock-keeping still dominates the terrestrial landscape, in areas where alternative forms of production are inhibited by limitations of climate and terrain, although that has not prevented other resource users (e.g. irrigated and rainfed cropping, housing development, mineral extraction) from expanding into the so-called marginal lands.

The results show that expected impacts from a likely climate change scenario were evident in the following increasing order: the irrigated cropping farm case study, the cropping and grazing farm, the more opportunistic rainfed cropping farm and the least opportunistic rainfed cropping farm.

However, crop improvements that have increased rainfed crop yields in recent decades may be associated with greater drought vulnerability33.

Rainfed crop production in northern China is constrained by low and variable rainfall.

Chickpea is a rainfed crop, developing and maturing on residual soil moisture, and during periods of insufficient pre-season rainfall the crop is threatened by terminal drought.

In the warmer conditions of tropical and subtropical regions, rainfed crop production is likely to be negatively impacted by rising temperatures.

MIRCA2000 provides irrigated and rainfed crop areas around the year 2000 with a spatial resolution of 9.2 km at the equator.