Sentence examples for rainfed lands from inspiring English sources

This indicates that irrigated lands are more productive versus rainfed lands.

These figures which are in line with the corresponding global figures reported by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 23.4% and 44%, respectively [38], indicate that irrigated lands are more productive versus rainfed lands.

Cynara cardunculus L. has been recognised as an energy crop for rainfed lands with Mediterranean climates.

This experiment reflects the current state of the art in which authors do not distinguish between irrigated and rainfed lands.

This figure shows that in Brazil, there is a major difference between the yields of irrigated and rainfed lands.

If the new lands are irrigated and therefore have higher yields than rainfed lands in the same AEZ, then less land conversion will be required.

Less favored agricultural land consists of irrigated land on terrain greater than 8%% median slope; rainfed land with a length of growing period (LGP) of more than 120 days but either on terrain greater than 8%% median slope or with poor soil quality; semi-arid land (land with LGP 60 119 days); and arid land (land with LGP <60 119 days).

During field surveying assessment made on the catchment were identified six major land use types: these are built-up area (residential area), forest land, irrigated land, rainfed crop land or cultivated land, shrub land and water body.

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).

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.

We define potentially available cropland as the moderately to highly productive land that could be used in the coming years for rainfed farming, with low to moderate capital investments, and that is not under intact mature forests, legally protected, or already intensively managed.