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ShareIrrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops.
The water source for irrigation may be a nearby or distant body of liquid or frozen water.
For more information about the topic Irrigation, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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