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Incidence of flood has been on the increase in Ilorin for sometime; and this exemplifies the problem operating in most urban centres in Nigeria. Increase in runoff production in an urbanized catchment is a function, among other factors of to increase in percentage paved area brought about by deforestation activities and poor environmental attitude of the people. This study examines the relationship between runoff discharge and basin characteristics in Ilorin. Data used were collected directly from the field over a period of one calendar year. Rainfall data were collected in each basin using a standard rainguage of 20cm orifice while basin discharge was collected twice daily (8.00am and 6.30pm) using fabricated staff gauge graduated in centimeter. Basin morphometric attributes were compu...
...e) Improvement in farming techniques: Farming practices can be improved upon...This can be through the cultivation of crops such as groundnut with high root density and cowpe...
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... grew the earliest Yukon agricultural crops as they tried to augment their insufficient suppli... construction of the Alaska Highway, and farming suffered due to a lack of nearby arable land. The ...
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...Gunn has built up a law practice and a farming business through the investment of capital and the...His father raised cattle, sheep and cash crops on the farm. Mr. Gunn worked on his father’s far...
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... Fransisco seems to have one of the better crops of the eight small producers who CEPAD is using fo... a great wealth of knowledge concerning farming and life in the campo. There are resources there, ...
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...Gunn has built up a law practice and a farming business through the investment of capital and the...His father raised cattle, sheep and cash crops on the farm. Mr. Gunn worked on his father’s far...
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...farmer . means a person engaged in farming in Canada for commercial purposes. (agriculteur). ...means the production of field-grown crops, cultivated and uncultivated and horticultural cro...
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...No-till farming, irrigation scheduling, reduced over-irrigation, a... prices, it remains far cheaper to grow crops where there is substantial natural rainfall than i...
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... difficult conditions, is exactly what farming systems will need if they are to thrive through th..., they diversify by growing a wider range of crops in their field rotations. Some crops, such as oats...
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... farmers to divert huge volumes of crops like corn (or maize), soybean, sugar, and vegetabl... significantly higher yields in a range of farming systems. Designing gender-sensitive agricultural p...
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... lottery?" The second replies, "I'd keep farming until it was all gone.". Walt Wingfield, Ontario p... and failings can be deep rooted, unlike the crops that blow away in the drought that can only be ass...