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Since the Jains have been associated with agricultural markets for decades, first as a farming family and now as suppliers of micro-irrigation systems, they had enough goodwill among farmers to enter into contracts 'merely on the spoken word.
Lucky Harvest R.N. Bhaskar 2010
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Its farm inputs businesses such as fertilizers and micro-irrigation solutions are being carved out and merged with Kakinada Fertilizers, a sister company with the same owners.
Zuari Ups Stake in Nagarjuna Fertilizers Aniek Paul 2011
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Since the Jains have been associated with agricultural markets for decades, first as a farming family and now as suppliers of micro-irrigation systems, they had enough goodwill among farmers to enter into contracts 'merely on the spoken word.
Lucky Harvest R.N. Bhaskar 2010
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The subsidy in the fertilizer sector and reduction in customs duty on micro-irrigation products will also boost agri-productivity, says D.
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When I spoke with Larry he explained that, Del Cabo farmers started focusing on sustainability and water consumption 25 years ago when they began converting open canal irrigation to micro-irrigation systems.
Ann Gentry: NY Times vs. Organic Farmers -- It's the Golf Courses Stupid! Ann Gentry 2012
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Since the Jains have been associated with agricultural markets for decades, first as a farming family and now as suppliers of micro-irrigation systems, they had enough goodwill among farmers to enter into contracts 'merely on the spoken word.
Lucky Harvest R.N. Bhaskar 2010
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The articles include geeked-out gardening tips (like an Arduino-controlled automatic indoor garden called the Garduino, micro-irrigation, and worm composting) and lots of energy related projects (like how to make a Tweet-a-Watt so you can twitter your electricity usage, and other ways to measure and reduced power usage in your home).
Boing Boing 2009
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According to the NIDP, areas suitable for irrigation have been classified into three land categories: (I) lands which may be irrigated with all common techniques of irrigation; (II) lands suited only to sprinkler and micro-irrigation techniques; and (III), lands with generally steep slopes (10%) and thin soils, which are productive with careful management of the limitations and responsive to manual irrigation.
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Three-quarters of the area are under surface irrigation, 17% are equipped with sprinklers and 8% with micro-irrigation systems (Figure 2).
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Costs for sprinkler and micro-irrigation systems are 6,200 and 8,700 US$/ha respectively.
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