irrigation farming
Channeled water cultivation
Irrigation farming is agriculture that relies on artificial water supply rather than rainfall alone.
Farmers channel water from rivers, wells, or reservoirs to crops through canals, pipes, sprinklers, or drip systems.
The practice allows cultivation in arid regions and increases yields in areas with unreliable precipitation: Irrigation farming transformed the desert into productive cropland.
- reservoirsBodies storing water supply
- salinizationIncreasing salt concentration
- wheatCereal crop for flour
- canalsConstructed water passages
- riceStaple cereal grain
sprinkler systems · moisture sensors · soil erosion · crop rotation · growing season · cash crops · water conservation · sluice gates · aquifers · water table · water pumps · hydrology · water rights · water district · maize · groundwater depletion · flood plain · arid lands
irrigation farmingwild harvesting
Collecting food from nature
foraging · gathering · natural farming · subsistence farming · shifting cultivation
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