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Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Agriculture / irrigation | | Portuguese term or phrase: lâmina d’água | This is in the context of irrigation in growing rice:
Num período de aproximadamente 10 dias antes da colheita, a irrigação (lâmina d’água) será retirada para proporcionar um solo firme ao pisoteio, evitando-se assim o enterrio profundo de sementes que caiam ao solo. |
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| | water layer | Explanation:
Another possibility, as used in:
PDF] Symposium on the International Network on Water Ecosystems and ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
In paddy irrigation, a standing water layer is established in the fields and ... The standing water layer in paddy fields is important not only for the ...
www.maff.go.jp/inwepf/documents/ inaugural/keizrul-note.pdf - Similar pages
CHAPTER 4: DETERMINATION OF THE IRRIGATION SCHEDULE FOR PADDY RICEAlso a common practice is to drain all the water from the field before applying fertilizers and to re-establish the water layer after the fertilizer ...
www.fao.org/docrep/T7202E/t7202e07.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
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David Elliff
Brazil
Local time: 03:14
| Grading comment Thanks! The answers with water depth and water height may have been right in some contexts, but not in this one.
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Explanation:
Another possibility, as used in:
PDF] Symposium on the International Network on Water Ecosystems and ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
In paddy irrigation, a standing water layer is established in the fields and ... The standing water layer in paddy fields is important not only for the ...
www.maff.go.jp/inwepf/documents/ inaugural/keizrul-note.pdf - Similar pages
CHAPTER 4: DETERMINATION OF THE IRRIGATION SCHEDULE FOR PADDY RICEAlso a common practice is to drain all the water from the field before applying fertilizers and to re-establish the water layer after the fertilizer ...
www.fao.org/docrep/T7202E/t7202e07.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
| David Elliff
Brazil
Local time: 03:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 8
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| | Grading comment | Thanks! The answers with water depth and water height may have been right in some contexts, but not in this one. |
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