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What is Planning for Agriculture?
Planning for agriculture is a policy process to help ensure a future for agriculture in a given place over a…
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The Importance of Flood Routing
Flood routing is a key element in hydrologic analysis, but one that is often overlooked. Civil engineers, hydrologists, and conservationists…
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Farm Pond Design and Construction
In the previous lectures, general description on farm pond is covered along with detailed design of embankment type of farm…
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Design of Chute Spillway
In the previous lecture, chute spillway and its components of chute spillway are discussed. In this lecture, design of SAF…
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Design Requirements of Gully Control Structures
A structure installed across an active gully to stabilize the gully through control of erosion of gully bottom and banks…
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Grassed Waterways
Grassed waterways are natural or man made constructed channels established for the transport of concentrated flow at safe velocities from…
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What Is Terrace Farming?
Terrace farming is used throughout the world for cultivation purposes. Definition Of Terrace Farming Terrace farming is a type of…
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What are contour ditches?
Contour ditches are horizontal ditches dug on the slope of a hill to catch the rainwater running down the hill.…
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Trenching
Trenching is one of the major engineering measures for erosion control in non-arable lands and is mainly aimed to slope…
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Vegetative Barriers for Erosion Control
The use of stiff-stemmed vegetation as barrier strips in cropland areas vulnerable to erosion is a new conservation practice that…
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Controlling Erosion of Soil by Water: 9 Biological Methods
Biological Method # 1. Contouring: The term contouring, also referred to as contour farming, applies to the tillage practices or…
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Conjunctive use of surface and groundwater
SURFACE WATER OR GROUNDWATER? Disadvantages of surface water development compared to groundwater In most climates of the world, precipitation, either…
