irrigation sector Articles
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Water trends in agricultural irrigation for 2024: sustainability through digitalization
The irrigation sector has a key role to play in ensuring food security in the current global context, marked by a changing geopolitical situation, climate change and the scarcity of water resources. Thus, agricultural irrigation is facing new challenges that mean irrigation associations will need to digitalize their processes. Initiatives such as Spain’s PERTE (Recovery, Transformation and ...
By Idrica
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Automatic irrigation control system: easy management, efficient irrigation
Background: With the continuous development and application of science and technology, more and more fields begin to adopt automation technology to improve production efficiency and reduce costs. In the agricultural sector, automatic irrigation control systems have become a must-have device that can help farmers easily manage their fields, achieve efficient irrigation, and improve crop yield and ...
By JXCT
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Precision Irrigation - Case Study
The NIAB EMR WET (Water Efficient Technologies) Centre houses an integrated portfolio of cutting-edge growing techniques and trickle irrigation systems for the soft fruit sector. It provides commercial scale demonstrations, one to one expert technical advice, and training workshops. The Centre’s commercially available Precision Irrigation Package system features our SM150T Soil Moisture ...
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Iran welcomes Plastic-Puglia
Two days of meetings and discussions between the Plastic-Puglia and Iran. The company, in close cooperation with IAMB, the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, and together with the technical department of Terremerse Bagnocavallo Cooperative (Ravenna), was invited by the Iranian Ministry of Agriculture to deal with the problems of the agricultural sector , particularly those relating to ...
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Impact analysis of reducing multi-provincial irrigation subsidies in China: a policy simulation based on a CGE model
Water pricing policy is believed to be an efficient method for addressing the water scarcity problem in China. The motivation of this study is to provide a better understanding of how reducing irrigation subsidies impacts farming sectors and rural households. We apply a Computable General Equilibrium model to simulate the irrigation water and irrigation subsidy in 16 provinces. The results ...
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Central Asian irrigation sector in a climate change context: some reflections
According to expert opinion, the Central Asian region is likely to experience climate-induced changes with the irrigation sector being the most vulnerable to any change. Climate change impacts are interconnected with land use and socio-economic changes, and many other processes of a human–environmental system. Assessment and adequate information sharing play a critical role in decision ...
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Water allocation reform to meet environmental uses while sustaining irrigation: a case study of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia
Governments are developing policy to reallocate water to environmental uses in many of the world's major river basins developed for irrigation. These policies can place considerable pressure on the irrigation sector to adjust, and may be perceived to conflict with food security and rural development goals. This paper reviews the literature examining opportunities to reduce irrigation ...
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Egypt: The role of water users` associations in reforming irrigation
Egypt’s water resources are severely constrained. This calls for increasing the water use efficiency by improving irrigation management practice, as the agriculture sector is the main user of water resources. Much of the irrigation infrastructure is elderly and in need of rehabilitation. The irrigation improvement program (IIP) is one of the large-scale projects to help Egypt to sustain its ...
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Tunisia: Reform of irrigation policy and water conservation
An arid country with limited water resources, Tunisia depends heavily on irrigated agriculture. The sector contributes 30-40% of the value of agricultural production, and is highly important in some regions. However, abstraction for irrigation accounts for 83% of the available water resources, competing with other uses. To conserve water resources and encourage demand management in the irrigation ...
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Achieving financial sustainability and recovering costs in bank financed water supply and sanitation and irrigation projects
This note is a partial response to the above mentioned 2010 Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) evaluation. It covers the specific issues to be addressed in the Water supply and Sanitation (WSS) sector and in the irrigation sector in two distinct parts, because if WSS and irrigation have some common features, there are many distinctions to be made. Among the various water-using sectors, that ...
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Malawi - Public private partnership options study and awareness raising for irrigation investment in Malawi
This report describes the results of a mission to support the Government of Malawi in conceiving viable Public Private Partnership (PPP) models for financially sustainable irrigation development and management in general, and carry out specific options analysis for starting a PPP process for the proposed Shire Valley Irrigation Project (SVIP). After an introduction presenting the background of ...
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Water institutional reforms in Sri Lanka
ABSTRACT This paper reviews water institutional reforms in Sri Lanka by contrasting those observed during the 1980s with those proposed during the 1990s. While the earlier reforms focused on the irrigation sector that yielded quicker benefits and low political risks, recent reforms have covered macro institutions and the whole water sector where the benefits are gradual and less visible but with ...
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