irrigation training Articles
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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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Empowering Women in Irrigation Management
This case study aims to highlight, within the context of a Gender Pilot of the Peru Sierra Irrigation Project, how women's different needs were identified to facilitate their access to training and to increase their participation in the management of water users' organizations. It follows the diagnostic participatory discussions around the importance for communities to include women in water ...
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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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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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Water pricing and irrigation across Europe: opportunities and constraints for adopting irrigation scheduling decision support systems
Despite the plethora of irrigation scheduling decision support systems that have been developed over the past decades, there is little evidence of widespread adoption by farmers. This paper investigates the structural, institutional and political rigidities that affect the adoption of irrigation scheduling technologies in southern European countries and highlights the corresponding ...
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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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