Browsing by Subject "Irrigation farming"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze econometrically the adjustments that occur in irrigated agriculture in response to increases in the cost of obtaining groundwater. In recent years there has been a growing ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)The purposes of this study was to quantify the benefits of using a wind energy system for irrigation. The value of wind energy was estimated on both a static basis (where the annual value of wind power was assumed to be ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)Public concern over the potential effects of energy price increases on the U.S. food and fiber system has been dramatically justified in the Trans Pecos region of Texas where a 450 percent increase in the price of natural ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The major purpose of this study is to develop an adaptive irrigation management policy for the Uda Walawa project in Sri Lanka. The policy is formulated by applying a linear programming algorithm that utilizes forecast ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)Irrigation is a major contributing factor in crop production on the Texas High Plains. It is responsible for greatly increasing crop production and farm income for the region. Two factors, a declining groundwater supply ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The chief sources of groundwater for the Texas Winter Garden are the Carrizo (Dimmit, Zavala, Frio, and LaSalle Counties) and Edwards (Uvalde County) Aquifers. The major user of groundwater in the region is irrigation. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)Twenty-five year old Stuart pecan trees were drip irrigated during the 1976 and 1977 growing seasons. Treatments consisted if 132, 283 and 454 liters per day and a control which received no supplemental irrigation. The ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)The Northern High Plains of Texas and Western Oklahoma has experienced rapid economic development due primarily to the development of groundwater for irrigation. Prior to irrigation development, this area of Texas and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)Large accrued debt levels as well as changes in government farm program income support levels insure an ongoing struggle to survive for farm firms in the Texas Trans-Pecos. Relying almost totally on deep groundwater supplies ...