Irrigation agriculture in the West
By: [prepared in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics].
Contributors: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
Series: Miscellaneous publication / United States Department of Agriculture ;; no. 670; Miscellaneous publication (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ;; no. 670.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary
Published: 1948
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Irrigation -- West (U.S.)
Description: This publication has been prepared in the interest of a permanent irrigation agriculture. Irrigation has played an important role in the remarkable achievement by farmers in this nation in meeting wartime and postwar production goals. It may play an even greater part in our future agricultural production. The food needs of a growing population and the establishment of desirable trade relations with other nations will require the maintenance of efficient, high-level agricultural production.