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Irrigation of agricultural area, Slovenia, 2007
Wednesday, July 02, 2008, First Release
In 2007, 4,196 hectares of agricultural area were irrigated, which is 47.9% more than in 2006.
In 2007, 4,196 hectares of agricultural area were irrigated; 91% were irrigated by sprinkling and 9% were irrigated drop by drop. As much as 83% of irrigated agricultural area belonged to arable land and gardens, whereas 15% belonged to orchards and 2% belonged to other.
4.6 million m3 of water were used for irrigation, most of it, 84.3%, from accumulations, 11.9% from running waters, 3.4% from ground water and 0.4% from other sources.
Water used for irrigation by water sources, Slovenia, 2007
| 1000 m3 |
| TOTAL | 4,641 |
| Ground waters | 157 |
| Running waters | 553 |
| Accumulations | 3,912 |
| Other | 19 |
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Irrigated area by method of irrigation and by type of agricultural area, Slovenia, 2007
| ha |
| TOTAL | 4,196 |
| By method of irrigation | |
| sprinkling | 3,802 |
| drop by drop | 394 |
| By type of agricultural area | |
| arable land and gardens | 3,477 |
| orchards | 638 |
| other | 81 |
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Methodological note Data on irrigation are transmitted by managers of irrigation systems. Since 2007 natural persons that obtained a water permit for direct use of water for irrigating agricultural land or other areas have also been covered by the survey.
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