Alex Carter, who farms 3, 500 acres of rice and soybean in southern Missouri, told CNN he's been running electric irrigation twice as much as most years because he's only gotten two inches of rain since March.
That way, he could ensure adequate irrigation water for his crops during the dry summer months.
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Then two years ago he saw a drip irrigation system being demonstrated in his village.
Bhavarlal stumbled into his niche when he saw a drip irrigation system in 1985 at an agricultural trade show in Fresno, California.
He persuaded James Hardie Irrigation of Australia to license its technology, but it took him more than a year to persuade India's hidebound bureaucracy to let him acquire the know-how.
Nitin Gadkari said he was ready for an investigation into allegations made by anti-corruption campaigners that he was involved in an irrigation scam worth millions of dollars.
He says mismanagement of the antiquated irrigation system has made efficient farming much more difficult.
He built dams, expanded the irrigation system.
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He previously ran his own successful drip irrigation business in the Middle East and North Africa.
In his initial attempt to procure technology from Israel, where modern micro-irrigation had been invented, he found no willing partner.
He recommended that the farmer switch to drip irrigation, and get some fans in his greenhouse, too.
He points to the success of micro-irrigation in semi-arid Gujarat, whose agriculture has grown at an average of 9.6% a year since the turn of the century, partly thanks to the creation of 500, 000 small ponds, dams and suchlike.
Santos says with the drift irrigation and more than 300 days of sun annually, he is able to produce harvests throughout the year.
"The ministry of agriculture is supposed to aid in having farmers learn and implement new irrigation methods but has not been very helpful, " he said.
For those who don't currently do nasal irrigation, generally people can use whatever they feel like, he said.
He led a squad of Marines in Marjah, a farm village crisscrossed by irrigation canals.
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Weiss says he has found evidence that the drought drove farmers in ancient Mesopotamia to build irrigation channels.
Kachelo says that he is learning how to employ overhead sprinklers to help conserve water but that most irrigation methods have not been updated since the British ruled Pakistan.
Second, he has still to reform his party, which has been subjected to none of the colonic irrigation of that other New Middler, the British Labour Party.
"It combines the investments that MCC has made in many sub-Saharan African countries in agriculture and public infrastructure such as roads and irrigation to complement Agra's investments in providing the rural poor with seeds and fertilisers, " he told the BBC.
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