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***** (***** | *****)The term rain-fed production refers to the form of agriculture applying for most farmed land, the one depending on rainfall for water supply.
As rainfall usually occurs rather scattered than periodically, to enable agricultural production agricultural water management (AWM) is essential. Depending on local climatic and geographic conditions different measures need to be taken, for examples depending on amount and distribution of annual rainfall as well as on the topography of the managed land. Current climatic changes apparitional in shifts of weather patterns even enforce this necessity and call for measures to distribute the available rain water as ideally as possible and at the same time to minimise the damage water can cause to soil if not properly managed
