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Word: agritech (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1977-1977
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California has long employed all manner of drought technology, which enables its farms to flourish. It has built a strong $10 billion system of dams, canals, reservoirs and other tributaries. More important, it has pioneered in new agritech-nologies that carefully ration water. Many California farms use irrigation-scheduling programs, which parcel out the least amount of water necessary to produce optimum yields. So-called SWAP technicians, who rely on computers to analyze soil, water, atmosphere and plant conditions weekly or semiweekly, can tell a farmer how much moisture to use for up to 60 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Waterless West | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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