Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief rabbinate to an accommodating Arab. Because of pressure from religious parties, the Israeli government ordered the rabbinate to sell all public lands as well for the duration of Shemittah. During the sabbatical year, Abdullah thus will be legal owner of more than 1,000,000 acres of Israel soil...
...building up a barrier against seawater intrusion. Since agriculture is Israel's heaviest user of water, Israeli scientists are systematically searching for the answer to a question that has plagued farmers throughout history: How much water does each crop actually need? Using radioactive tracer materials, American-born Soil Physicist Daniel Hillel is keeping track of irrigation water as it enters the fields and as it escapes through evaporation or plant transpiration. He radiates neutrons into the soil near plant roots and measures the results: the more water in the soil, the slower the neutrons move. He shoots leaves with...
...still, some water gets away. Soil experts are spraying plants with anti-transpirant chemicals, usually fatty acids, to reduce the loss of water from leaves. Because more than half of most irrigation water evaporates or is absorbed by the soil before it reaches its destination, Israeli farmers are encouraged to apply a wax coating to their ditches to form a barrier against absorption. Like the ancient Nabataeans who once cultivated the desert, the Israelis also practice "runoff farming." But the Nabataeans used wadi beds as catch basins; the Israelis cut contoured strips and seal alternating strips with modern, petroleum-based...
...only a few miles into Pakistani territory and then dug in: infantry in the front line, tanks huddled beneath trees and behind houses in the second, and in the third, artillery massed beneath camouflage netting. The Indians reasoned that Pakistan would have to drive these four columns from their soil or lose both the military and the political initiative...
...charges relate to two 14,000ft. mountain passes, Natu and Jelep, that lead to Tibet's Chumbi Valley. In this bleak terrain, swept by chill north winds, Peking claims the Indians have built "56 military structures," ranging from concrete gun positions to entrenchments, on China's soil. India concedes it has fortified the passes but insists the fortifications are on Sikkimese territory...