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... malaria whose " catastrophic spread as a result of irrigation practices in arid lands has been too wide- spread for it to be necessary to give any examples . " He concentrates instead on the diseases introduced indirectly as a result of ...
... malaria whose " catastrophic spread as a result of irrigation practices in arid lands has been too wide- spread for it to be necessary to give any examples . " He concentrates instead on the diseases introduced indirectly as a result of ...
Page 97
... malaria occurs during the summer months when humidity is maintained above 52 per cent . Even then , when rain - fed agriculture is practiced , malaria is no real problem , " but with perennial irrigation , the ideal humid environment ...
... malaria occurs during the summer months when humidity is maintained above 52 per cent . Even then , when rain - fed agriculture is practiced , malaria is no real problem , " but with perennial irrigation , the ideal humid environment ...
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... malaria to a mini- mum . How irrigation with muddy water combats malaria is as follows : during the monsoons , the plains become damp and then covered with water and the mosquitoes start breeding , but it is just then that the muddy ...
... malaria to a mini- mum . How irrigation with muddy water combats malaria is as follows : during the monsoons , the plains become damp and then covered with water and the mosquitoes start breeding , but it is just then that the muddy ...
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