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Irrigation photos: pumps, pipes, channels, shadoofs, sprinklers, mist, paddies, furrow & drip feed
flooded rice field, pump irrigation, bas-fonds, pipes, water wheel, irrigation channels, shadoof
KEN83TX12_12 Man, farmer, standing in muddy flooded paddy holds rice seedlings for transplanting. Mwea rice irrigation scheme, Kenya. Copyright Tropix (V. and M. Birley) BEN93TX9_16 Man attends to petrol driven pump that irrigates womens garden project from swamp (bas-fonds); Blehouan-Sota, S.Benin. Copyright Tropix (V. and M. Birley) BEN93TX9_03 Goun? tribe woman with can of water pumped from bas-fonds (wet season swamp); crop irrigation. Blehouan-Sota, S.Benin. Copyright Tropix (V. and M. Birley) BEN93TX10_02 Irrigation pipes through earth dyke to healthy maize (corn) crop; agriculture, cereal. Ouissi village, Zou Prov., Benin. Copyright Tropix (V. and M. Birley) EGY91TX24_14 Boy stands by abandoned water wheel: earlier irrigation system; cotton field behind. Nile Delta, Egypt. Copyright Tropix (V. and M. Birley) MOR03TX18_23 Walnut trees, Juglans regia, planted by irrigation channels in arid Atlas Mountains. Ait Bou Goumez Valley, Morocco. Copyright Tropix (V. and M. Birley) NIG82RC1_11 Man hoes edge of newly flooded soil, extends irrigation; shadoof (simple weighted crane) raising water behind. Nigeria. Copyright Tropix (R. CANSDALE)
overhead sprinkler jet, furrow channel, irrigation channels, pumped sewage, crane operated system
FRA90TX3_12 Irrigation of maize variety trials by overhead sprinkler jet; large scale commercial agriculture. Dordogne, France. Copyright Tropix (V. and M. Birley) ZAM86TX6_06 Nakambala sugar estate syphon / furrow irrigation; channel temporarily blocked off; Zambia. Copyright Tropix (V. and M. Birley) ALG70RC1_05 Date palm grove, irrigation channels & ditches, arid soil. In-Salah oasis, Tademaït Plateau; Sahara Desert, Algeria. Copyright Tropix (R. Cansdale) JOR95TX2_14 Treated effluent pumped out of river and used for irrigation; foam in water channel. Jordan Copyright Tropix (V. and M. Birley) NIG83RC1_02 Irrigation by simple crane (shadoof) - a weighted pole; Kano River water is channelled into field; farming. N.Nigeria. Copyright Tropix (R. Cansdale)
flooded paddies, water pipe from tubewell, centre pivot, mist irrigation, drip feed irrigation in desert
KEN83TX12_07 Bright green swathe of transplanted rice; flooded paddies divided by bunds behind. Mwea irrigation scheme, Kenya. Copyright Tropix (V. and M. Birley) NIG85DD4_08 Delighted farm boy holding water pipe gushing from tubewell; irrigated rice field; Fadama land, Kano State, N.Nigeria. Copyright Tropix (D. Davis) MRS95AM4_18 Young sugarcane field, with surface strewn, black, volcanic rocks piled up; centre pivot irrigation; clouds. Mauritius. Copyright Tropix (A. Mountain) BOT88JW12_21 Gardener tends seedlings on raised beds with mist irrigation; intensive horticulture. Sanitas Flower Farm, Botswana. Copyright Tropix (J. Woollard) EGY91TX8_01 Drip feed irrigation of young citrus grove; fruit trees planted in desert; water conservation. Dina Farm, N.Egypt. Copyright Tropix (V. and M. Birley)
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