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The principle that gardens need irrigation
1. Irrigation principle The amount of irrigation, the number of irrigation times and the time should be determined according to the water demand characteristics, growth stage, climate and soil conditions of medicinal plants, and timely, appropriate and reasonable irrigation. 2. The types of irrigation mainly include irrigation before planting, seedling irrigation, growth and irrigation, and ...
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Indian News Site Features Rivulis Irrigation CEO Speaking at Event in India
The following article was featured on the website, Smart Indian Agriculture. Vivian Fernandes reports on some of the interesting ideas being thrown up at the Confederation of Indian Industry’s event in Chandigarh on how advances in digital technology can drive Indian agriculture. How can a traditional company that sells drip irrigation equipment use advances in computing power and mobile ...
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New Method of Installing Subsurface Drip Irrigation
The TRENCH’N edge Trencher has developed a new method of installing Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) and Waste Water Dispersion (WWD) systems that decrease installation cost and clean-up labor. “Our new method of installing these water saving and water recycling systems save and reuse a substantial amount of one of our most precious resource, fresh water” said Patrick Dean, ...
By Edge Inc.
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Watering the world
Original story at MIT News Many farms in drought-prone regions of the U.S. rely on drip irrigation as a water-saving method to grow crops. These systems pump water through long thin tubes that stretch across farm fields. Hundreds of dime-sized drippers along the length of each tube trickle water directly onto a plant’s base. A farmer can control the timing and amount of watering, ...
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Irrigation with treated waste water: A growing fact
There is a serious problem of lack of water worldwide, so much in quantity as in quality, due to different facts as low rainfall, high evaporation or the increase in the demand of water for different uses. This fact is favouring the search and use of non-conventional sources of water, which guarantee the continuous availability of water to its use in agriculture and landscaping. The use of the ...
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Seven billion: the real population scare is not what you think
If you believe the doomsday merchants, the scariest thing about this Halloween is the fact that the world’s population will pass seven billion on or near October 31. Population growth, however, is not the biggest skeleton in the closet when it comes to our planet’s ability to absorb human impact. Far more damaging than the booming birth rate in low income countries are the ...
By SciDev.Net
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