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Agriculture

The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock and the preparation or marketing of those products.The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock and the preparation or marketing of those products.

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non-point-source pollution

Agriculture; Irrigation

Small amounts of pollution coming from large areas (fields) without a well-defined source.

net irrigation requirement

Agriculture; Irrigation

This is the crop’s irrigation need without including losses of any kind expressed as a layer of water in millimetres per day, month or other period of time.

nozzle

Agriculture; Irrigation

Final orifice through which water passes from the sprinkler to the atmosphere. Sprinkler flow rate is largely determined by the nozzle size (orifice diameter) and pressure.

operating pressure

Agriculture; Irrigation

Average pressure at sprinkler heads.

open channel drainage

Agriculture; Irrigation

Drainage accomplished by open channels or ditches.

operation of a canal with constant volume

Agriculture; Irrigation

Method of operation aimed at maintaining constant, under all conditions of steady flow, the volume of a canal reach situated between two gates.

operation of a canal with volume control

Agriculture; Irrigation

Method of maintaining a canal water volume at situated state between two gates which takes into account inflows and withdrawals that change over time.