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Hydrologic | A common irrigation method where pipes or tubes filled with water slowly drip onto crops. Drip irrigation is a low-pressure method of irrigation and less water is lost to evaporation than high-pressure spray irrigation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: DRIP IRRIGATIONSynonym: Trickle irrigation. (additional references) |
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 | Charlie Conerly (left), NRCS RC&D Coordinator and farmer in Mariana, FL, discuss the benefits of drip irrigation.[Slide 97CS3082]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Drip irrigation delivers small amounts of water to young citrus trees in California's Imperial Valley. This type of irrigation is highly efficient because it delivers small amounts of water over a long period of time and greatly reduces evaporation of irr. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | NRCS employee, Clair Klock, checking drip irrigation on Klock Farms. Credit: Ron Nichols. |  | Kenneth Grimes (right), NRCS Soil Conservationist, Fresno County, CA, and Michael Yang (left), University of California Extension Service, Fresno, CA, survey drip irrigation installed by Hmoung farmers in raised beds to grow lettuce. [Slide 97CS2971]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | University of California Extension Service staff and Chu Yang (right), NRCS Soil Conservationist, Fresno, CA, survey drip irrigation installed in raised beds prepared to grow strawberries. [Slide 97CS2976]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | California producer, and Chu Yang (blue shirt), NRCS Soil Conservationist, Fresno, CA, discuss drip irrigation with a group of the original Hmoung farmers to the Central Valley of California. [Slide 97CS2979]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Alaska landowner and District Conservationist Phil Naegele discuss management of a sustainable agriculture lingenberry field. Landowners uses waste from a local fish cannery as fertilizer. Also uses drip irrigation.[Slide 97CS3171]. Credit: Ron Nichols. |  | District Conservationist Edward Romero showing drip irrigation system on vineyards. Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Michael Yang (left), University of California Extension Service and Chu Yang (right), NRCS, Soil Conservationist, Fresno, California survey drip irrigation installed in raised beds prepared to grow strawberries. Credit: USDA. | ||
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Business | The U.S. is strong in grain sorters and storage, tractors, drip irrigation systems and parts, fertilizer distributors and incubators. (references) | |
Among the 15.3 million hectares of land using water-saving technologies, areas under sprinkling and drip irrigation only account for 1.2 million and 0.3 million hectares. (references) | ||
Economic History | Mauritius | Israel is also a major supplier of irrigation equipment, particularly drip irrigation. (references) |
Syria | Utilizing more efficient irrigation systems such as sprinkler or drip irrigation will become mandatory over the coming four years. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Over the five year term 2001-2005, demand is estimated to be highest for the following groups of agricultural machinery and equipment: tractors with engine capacity 60-120 and more than 120 hp, implements (plows, cultivators, seed drills and planters, rotary-cutters), combine harvesters, harvesting machines, forage harvesters, beet harvesters, cotton harvesters, potato harvesters, hay gathering machines, balers, mowers, sowing and planting machines, disc soil-cultivating machines, grain drying installations, grain storage equipment (silos), irrigation equipment, overhead and drip irrigation equipment, machines and supplements for soil cultivation and preservation (plow harrow, chain harrow, seed harrow), spreaders of fertilizer, grain and seeds and machines for plant protection. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-i-i-i-n-o-p-r-r-r-t" | |
-4 letters: irrigation. | |
-5 letters: granitoid, irrigator, parroting, prorating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 52 49 50 49 52 52 49 47 41 54 49 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01010010 01001001 01010000 00100000 01001001 01010010 01010010 01001001 01000111 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D R I P   I R R I G A T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0052 0049 0050 0049 0052 0052 0049 0047 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38524350243525243413554434948 |
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