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ISBN: | 9780080548654 0080548652 0750689374
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (page 160) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | There is no doubt that irrigation makes a major contribution to agricultural production, making a whole range of crops viable in an otherwise unreliable climate and helping insure against drought. However irrigation does not automatically guarantee a profit and acclaim, it is a high cost exercise, using water from increasingly scarce supplies, and contributes to environmental concerns of the community. Many of the pressures facing some irrigators have been caused by a lack of understanding in the past of best practices necessary in design, installation and management. Alternative methods of ir.
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Other form: | Print version: Southorn, Neil. Farm irrigation. Port Melbourne ; Newton [Mass.] : Inkata Press, ©1997 0750689374 9780750689373
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