Concepts
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INDIVIDUAL IRRIGATION SYSTEM: A system designed to serve only one agricultural holding with no collective use of any of the system's segments.
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AGRICULTURAL HOLDING: Technical-economic unit that uses common production factors such as labour, machinery, facilities, land, among others, fulfilling the following four conditions: 1) yield agricultural products or maintain, in good agricultural and environmental conditions, the lands that are no longer used for productive purposes; 2) reach or exceed a certain size (in area or number of animals); 3) be subject to a single management; 4) be located in a well-defined and identifiable area.
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IRRIGATION: pplication of water to the soil to replace the level of moisture necessary to the appropriate development of crops, to protect them against low temperatures, provide them with fertilisers diluted in the irrigation water or wash out excess salts from the soil. Application of water to the soil to restore the required level of humidity to the proper development of the crops, ensure their protection against low temperatures, provide them with diluted fertilizers in the irrigation water or promote the washing of salts in excess of the profile from soil.
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REFERENCE PERIOD: Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
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COLLECTIVE IRRIGATION SYSTEM: System that serves several holdings and consists of infrastructure operated by a public organization or private individuals belonging to a farmer's organisation or association in which, in any part of them, the system is used collectively. There is usually also a set of buildings and/or facilities owned exclusively by the holdings.
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