Sentence examples for rainfed farming from inspiring English sources

Although rainfall in high rainfall regions is sufficient to meet the water demand of crops, its spatial and temporal distribution makes rainfed farming a risky proposition.

This high crop yield variability characterizes rainfed farming system in Ethiopia in general and in the central Rift valley (CRV) in particular (Seleshi and Demaree 1995; Conway and Hulme 1993).

Respondents with large family size, low to marginal land holding size, low income, and rainfed farming systems are found to be more vulnerable to drought impacts; special attention should be given towards increasing their resilience when designing drought management strategies.

In many cases, the farm level rainwater harvesting structures were highly effective for rainfed farming and had a multiplier effect on farm income.

The high recharge is probably enhanced by deforestation of the land for subsistence rainfed farming (Ibrahim et al. 2014) that constitutes over 60%% of the land cover within the plain (Ndzeidze 2008).

Rainfed farming in Ethiopia is the main contributor to crop production, but highly variable due to its exposure to rainfall variability (Ford et al. 2015; Conway and Schipper 2011; Deressa et al. 2009).

We apply the approach in a case study of a 4500 ha rainfed farm, located in the low-rainfall cropping zone of the Western Australian grainbelt.

The data show that NT is an effective and sustainable management practice that improves carbon sequestration and increases soil fertility, resulting in higher winter wheat yields in the rainfed dryland farming areas of northern China.

We addressed this issue within the Lebna watershed (210 km² size, located on the Cap Bon Peninsula in Tunisia), which is typified by a hilly topography, rainfed mixed farming (cereals, fodder, legumes, spices) and livestock (cattle, sheep and goat), and strong farmland fragmentation.

These factors are major constraints in the predominant rainfed small farm cotton culture of south-central India.

Of the lowland rainfed rice farms worldwide, over 22 million hectares are vulnerable to flash flooding, representing 18% of the global supply of rice (Khush 1984).