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Extending Sustainable Irrigation Opportunities To Socially And Historically Disadvantaged Farmers In The Alabama Black Belt To Support Commercial-Level Production, Raymon Shange, Richard Martin, Victor Khan, Kwesi Daniels, George X. Hunter, Gwendolyn J. Johnson, Steve Musser, William Puckett, Walter A. Hill
Extending Sustainable Irrigation Opportunities To Socially And Historically Disadvantaged Farmers In The Alabama Black Belt To Support Commercial-Level Production, Raymon Shange, Richard Martin, Victor Khan, Kwesi Daniels, George X. Hunter, Gwendolyn J. Johnson, Steve Musser, William Puckett, Walter A. Hill
Professional Agricultural Workers Journal
This paper focuses on providing sustainable irrigation opportunities to socially and historically disadvantaged farmers (SHDFs). The ability to provide steady production capacity through the use of renewable energy sources and microirrigation is innovative, in that it demonstrated how to develop and utilize a sustainable irrigation system in both energy and water conservation. This venture is also innovative in that it sought to provide SHDFs with irrigation in a state in which irrigation in agriculture is minimal, while at the same time, offsetting the energy costs that normally accompany irrigation. Several farmers are profiled in their participation in the irrigation program. …
Irrigation And Fertilizer Management For Horticultural Crops On The Swan Coastal Plain, I R. Mcpharlin, Greg Luke
Irrigation And Fertilizer Management For Horticultural Crops On The Swan Coastal Plain, I R. Mcpharlin, Greg Luke
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
The Swan Coastal Plain is an important area for the production of vegetables, flowers and fruits in Western Australia. The yellow Cottesloe, Karrakatta and the white-grey Bassendean Sands upon which most of this production is based are infertile in their natural state and require large inputs of fertilizer for succesful production of horticultural crops.
Improved irrigation and fertilizer management will be needed to reduce nutrient leaching from horticultural crops on the coastal plain. This will probably involve applying fertilizer and water more frequently, but in smaller quantaties thaan currently practiced. The result should more closely match water and fertilizer supply …
Irrigation In South-Western Australia, K S. Cole
Irrigation In South-Western Australia, K S. Cole
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
THE pattern of irrigation in South-Western Australia is constantly changing, At present, the main increase is in the private sector.
In the past century, there has been a see-saw effect from private to Government to private schemes.
Private Irrigation Systems : Do They Pay?, G D. Oliver
Private Irrigation Systems : Do They Pay?, G D. Oliver
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
WESTERN AUSTRALIA, with 71,000 acres under irrigation, can hardly claim to have an important irrigation farming industry.
However, irrigation is daily growing in importance, especially through private schemes. These account for almost half the present irrigated area.
The Hamel Nursery, K S. Cole
The Hamel Nursery, K S. Cole
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
A LITTLE known, but highly productive use of irrigation water occurs at the Forestry Department Nursery, Hamel.
Seedlings of trees and shrubs are raised during the summer for sale the following winter.
Sales are made to the farming community and many trees are used by the Forest Department in its reafforestation programmes.
Land Grading In South West Irrigation Areas, 1966-67, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Land Grading In South West Irrigation Areas, 1966-67, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Land grading in the South West Irrigation Areas with modern earth moving equipment first commenced in 1949.
The advantages of land grading are well recognised by farmers and this season grading operations were carried out on 208 farms.
Irrigation In The South-West : Report On Government-Controlled Areas, 1965-66, G Gauntlett
Irrigation In The South-West : Report On Government-Controlled Areas, 1965-66, G Gauntlett
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
LARGE scale irrigation in the south-western part of Western Australia is confined to the coastal plain, west of the Darling Range where the three irrigation districts of Waroona, Harvey and Collie have been established.
Hints On Irrigating Citrus With Saline Water, Stanley Thomas Smith
Hints On Irrigating Citrus With Saline Water, Stanley Thomas Smith
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
IN the past few years a number of citrus orchards near Perth have shown signs of damage caused by excess "salt" (chloride) uptake. All have been irrigated either from the Canning River or from private bores or dams.
Senior Soil Research Officer S. T. Smith describes glasshouse experiments which have given some useful guides to minimising "salt" damage in citrus trees irrigated with low-quality water.
Water Usage Trials With Bananas On The Gascoyne, W M. Nunn
Water Usage Trials With Bananas On The Gascoyne, W M. Nunn
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
THE banana industry at Carnarvon is an unusual one by most agricultural standards.
Normally a tropical plant liking relatively humid conditions in a high rainfall, the banana is cultivated at Carnarvon in an area of extremely low rainfall and with relatively low humidity throughout the year.
Water is pumped to irrigate the crop from the sands of the Gascoyne River bed or from bores adjacent to the river course.