Irrigation Articles
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Five benefits of agricultural smart irrigation
Population growth and an increase in irrigated agricultural land lead to a greater need for water and energy, at a time when global warming and rising greenhouse gas emissions are posing a real environmental challenge. In this context, the benefits of smart irrigation, i.e., using the exact amount of water needed for each crop, help to optimize this scarce resource. If we take a closer look at ...
By Idrica
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How effectively can technology be used in the agriculture sector?
Today, the agriculture sector is under pressure as the world's population grows. At the same time, the industry is being asked to produce more food with fewer resources in a way that doesn't damage the environment. At least, farmers worldwide need to feed 9.1 billion people in 2050. It's a big challenge, but one that can be met with the help of technology. It's nothing new for farmers to use ...
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Farming Cotton In A Water-Scarce World
One of the least discussed aspects of the climate emergency is the water crisis, but as the realities of water stress and scarcity around the world really start to bite, there can be no doubt that it will soon become a hot topic of conversation, hitting headlines with increasing regularity as time goes on. Because water underpins every aspect of society in the 21st century, it is immediately ...
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Issues to Avoid when Drying Cannabis
Cultivating cannabis can be challenging, as it will only grow and thrive under specific conditions. Also, cannabis requires special care to be fragrant, potent, and free of pests and contaminants. These challenges still continue even at the harvesting, drying, and curing stages. Without special care, cultivators may not produce quality products or risk the loss of essential minerals like ...
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Young researchers who are transforming agri-food systems for rural prosperity
IWMI’s Sidra Khalid and Najeeb Ullah won this year’s Transformative Research Challenge hosted by the World Food Forum Interviewed by Samurdhi Ranasinghe, Senior Communications Officer, IWMI IWMI’s very own Sidra Khalid, Senior Research Officer – Gender and Social Inclusion, and Najeeb Ullah, Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Specialist, recently won the special prize at ...
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4 Reasons why Over Irrigation is a Bad Idea
Being generous with watering your crops sounds like a great idea, especially during hot and dry weather. However, over-irrigation might cause serios harm. Here are some of the dangers involved with excessive irrigation: 1. Adverse effects on oxygen availability to the roots Just like humans, plant roots need air to breathe. When there is too much water in the soil, the roots cannot take in ...
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4 Tips to Turn Snow Plowing into a Profitable Side Business
In our annual Snow Industry Benchmark Report, we survey close to 150 snow industry businesses. Their responses help uncover some of the overarching business issues and the opportunities that they face. When the right pieces are in place, a snow removal business can be a very profitable operation. One of the key findings in our report was that only 4% of those we surveyed were snow removal only ...
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Why Modern Farm Management Is The Solution to Sustainability
With eight billion people currently existing on our planet and a population predicted to continue to grow into the future, we no longer have the luxury of unlimited, untapped natural resources. Therefore sustainability, or the idea of maintaining the resources we do have so we have them in the future, has become integral to the future survival of human beings. When it comes to sustainable ...
By AGRIVI
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Results from the ground up
Maintaining soil health and increasing bushels Soil health is the most important aspect of your farm fields. Without healthy soil, you face a tough challenge each year. When your soil profile is strong and not deficient in any nutrients or minerals, you increase your chance of a successful growing season. More than anything, healthy soil gives you the chance to increase your bushels. If your soil ...
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Soil compaction, an underestimated problem
Soil compaction is becoming a major issue worldwide. Not only in the Netherlands but globally the soil is deteriorating very badly. Soil compaction is a form of soil degradation, in which the soil structure is lost because the soil is compressed. This global problem is still underestimated and causes problems for agriculture, nature, and climate. Furthermore, soil compaction leads to loss of ...
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For Manure Treatment, Decanter Centrifuge Can Save Your Money
Why Treat Manure？ If there’s one constant in farming, Poop—and a lot of it. A single horse creates 50 pounds of waste per day; a beef cow up to 92 pounds; a feeder pig 9½ pounds; a sheep 4 pounds; and a laying hen 1/4 pounds, according to the Midwest Plan Service’s “Manure Management Series.” Harm: All of the farm owners have to face the following problems: ...
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Pratt Hatchery West Flanders, Belgium - Case Study
Matching the Agricultural Load with Wind. Pratt runs a poultry hatchery in West-Flanders (Hulste, Belgium). The chicks are bred at a controlled room temperature with continuous ventilation—which consumes a significant amount of electricity. To run their farm in the most sustainable way, the owners invested in an Eocycle wind turbine. ...
By Eocycle
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Why Choose Geomembrane Anti-seepage Membrane and other Materials for Fish Pond Culture?
At present, the aquaculture industry adopts a collectivized model for raising. It is conceivable that there must be a lot of fish and shrimp excrement in the water, and the water quality is bound to be poor. In the long run, this will definitely affect the groundwater resources of the surrounding environment. To avoid this from happening, you can lay an impermeable membrane around the pond to ...
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Water, why should I pay to fix it?
Water is the essential nutrient for greenhouses, plants, vegetables, fruit, flowers and all living things. However, it is always the last nutrient farmers want to spend money on to accomplish all its benefits. Simple things like bacteria, electrical conductivity, iron, manganese, sulphates, algae, and funguses must be monitored and addressed. If you are not fixing your water, you are leaving a ...
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Voices from Below
Understanding the layers of inequality in agriculture Officially, Kavita Devi would not count as landless. Even though she belongs to a land-owning family, in practice, she is landless. These intra-household gender-generational granularities are not accounted for in official statistics of landless rural families in Bihar who make for over 60% of the state’s population, of which, over 92% ...
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How weather stations can help make more informed crop management decisions
Up your defenses against unpredictable Mother Nature with an on-farm weather station’s accurate weather monitoring, forecasting and historical data There’s a long-enduring sentiment in Canadian agriculture that when farmers gather, they’re usually talking about the weather. There’s a good reason for this. After all, there are many things you can control on the farm from ...
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PE Pond Liner for Fish Farm Project in Malaysia
PE Pond Liner is a new polymer material, which is made of polyethylene. It is the most used plastic drainage film at present and can be used in many industries. Because of its lightweight, low cost, and convenient installation, it has been used in fishery and agriculture. PE Pond Liner is used for seepage prevention and leakage prevention of fish ponds; It is also used for seepage prevention, ...
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How ZR3I Managed To Be The First Digital Agri SaaS Platform in the Arab World
INTRODUCTION Zr3i is a digital agricultural platform that provides data to the small farmers, agriculture businesses and all workers in the agriculture sector. Zr3i has developed a website and an android application for Egypt and the Arab World that are available in Arabic language for better understanding for local farmers. “Zr3i’s main objective is to provide detailed ...
By Farmonaut
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The Importance of Water Quality in Fish Farming
Due to the increasing global demand for fish as a source of food, around half of the world’s fish supply is now farmed artificially rather than caught through capture fisheries in natural environments. Aquaculture has been the fastest growing sector of the global food industry since the 1970s, and has predominately taken place in the Asia-Pacific region. Water quality management in ...
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ZUKE Digital Congress
The (sustainable) future of hospital purchasing In 2017, committed and sustainability-focused hospital buyers founded the community and the portal "Future Hospital Purchasing" (ZUKE) with the mission of providing information for digital and sustainable hospital purchasing. On March 3, 2021, the community will meet at ZUKE at a digital congress - which is sponsored by UTK Solution GmbH, among ...
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