
Benjamin A. Jones
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Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Coauthor of Engineering Applications in Agriculture.
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Irrigation, in agriculture. the artificial application of water to land. Some land requires irrigation before it is possible to use it for any agricultural production. In other places, irrigation is primarily a means to supplement rainfall and serves to increase production. Some land, of course,…
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