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(4655) Spate irrigation
1- A system used for wetting the land prior to planting.2- A method of random irrigation using the flood waters of a normally dry system. It includes the construction of earthen diversion banks across the bed and then canals leading to embanked fields where the water is ponded until infiltration is complete.

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