The problem is compounded by the fact the peak summer season for tourists coincides with the period when irrigation needs are greatest in agriculture, WWF claims.
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Against the charge that some people have been left behind, Gujarat can point to reasonable growth in agriculture, helped by irrigation schemes.
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.
The former will generate electricity from the runoff of the 25, 000 miles of irrigation canals mostly set up by the British in this agriculture belt.
"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.
Though Egyptian agriculture was (and still is) based on irrigation, the flow of the Nile is controlled ultimately by rainfall patterns at its headwaters.
Among these figure water-harvesting technologies and drip irrigation, as well as technologies that recycle grey water in peri-urban agriculture.
"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.
Five are commercial ventures, including the overall winner, Bioneedle, and a Kenya-based social enterprise, Backpack Farm Agriculture Program, which sells tools and products like seeds and drip irrigation equipment to small commercial farmers in East Africa.
Although the stimulus measures will not change that, the government does hope to alleviate some of the immediate scarcity: of the 5.9 billion baht allocated to the agriculture ministry, three-quarters will be spent on efforts to improve irrigation.
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Miranda ranks high among Venezuelan states in agricultural and pastoral production, and government irrigation projects have resulted in the expansion of its large-scale farming and in the diversification of its agriculture.
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