Irrigation Systems News
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Cultivating change: Sri Lanka’s smallholder farmers explore climate-resilient solutions
On the north-central plains of Sri Lanka, in the small rural village in Galenbindunuwewa, a community of maize farmers are reshaping their farming practices to respond to the growing challenges posed by climate change. They recently welcomed researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and a delegation from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food ...
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Empowering Malawi`s Agricultural Growth: A Transformative Impact
Southern Irrigation has joined forces with the Timotheos Foundation in Malawi, an agricultural country that has been rated the poorest country on earth. Malawi is one of the world’s most impoverished and least developed nations, and it is making an effort to overcome decades of underdevelopment, corruption, and the impact of AIDS, which claims the lives of thousands every year. ...
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Irrigation Pump Intake Filter - Wedge Wire Screen
Our irrigation pump intake filters are made up of wedge wire screens. The design of the wedge wire intake screen is intended to improve agricultural efficiency and prevent the entry of debris, sediment, and other contaminants into the irrigation system. The irrigation pump intake filter ensures that the water supplied to crops is clean and free from particles that could clog pipes, and nozzles, ...
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Get Quality Agriculture Water System for Better Farming Results
The irrigation system is one of the most important parts of agriculture, and it is the life support of agriculture because without purified nutritional water, you cannot get good crops, and without an irrigation system, you cannot distribute water. Irrigation can make a big difference to your farming business. Your initial investment in agricultural water systems and purification will be ...
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Finapp lands in USA - Large-scale soil moisture in alfalfa fields
Finapp lands in the USA! Our probes were installed at the University of California, Davis. Large-scale soil moisture is an essential value for ground measurements. It permits to have a better water management and a correct irrigation. Preventing the plant from absorbing too much water or preventing it from going into stress allows the crop to be kept in a better state of health, avoiding water ...
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Manna Irrigation and Jain Logic have Merged
We are pleased to update that the merger of Rivulis (Manna’s parent company) and Jain Irrigation’s International Business (Jain Logic’s parent company) is now fully completed. The merged company, Rivulis, will be a global micro irrigation leader, backed by two strong, long-term shareholders – Temasek and Jain Irrigation, and focused on transforming agricultural irrigation ...
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Self Cleaning Irrigation Water Filters
The self-cleaning irrigation water filter uses the filter screen to directly intercept impurities in the water, removing suspended solids and particulate matter, reducing turbidity, purifying water quality, and decreasing system dirt, bacteria, algae, rust, etc. It also ensures the safety of agricultural irrigation water and the normal operation of irrigation systems. YUBO Filtration Equipment ...
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Corteva Agriscience and Manna Announce Agreement on Seed Production Irrigation Management
The agreement paves the way towards more sustainable irrigation practices Corteva Agriscience, one of the world’s largest agriculture companies, and Manna Irrigation, a leading provider of irrigation intelligence software solutions, have announced a new contract to enhance effective irrigation practices. Corteva Agriscience implemented the Manna Irrigation ...
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The GoAigua smart irrigation solution wins “Green Award” for its work in the field of sustainability
On October 3, Idrica Qatar (Aguas de Valencia WLL) was awarded first prize in the Green Awards’ Green Design category, thanks to the smart irrigation pilot program in which the GoAigua Smart Green solution was implemented in two parks in the city of Al Khor. Ashghal thus acknowledged the hard work carried out by the company in a project regarded as a Sustainable Development initiative, in ...
By Idrica
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Solar minigrids bring water to Ethiopian farms
Ethiopia has launched nine large scale irrigation systems powered by solar minigrids, thanks to the Distributed Renewable Energy – Agriculture Modalities, or DREAM initiative. Agriculture is a major part of Ethiopia’s economy, yet only 5% of the country’s land is irrigated. As a result, crop yields on small farms are below regional averages. Those behind the DREAM initiative ...
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Idrica develops new technologies to optimize agricultural irrigation
These solutions provide a smart system that supports decision-making, optimizes infrastructure control and field work monitoring, thanks to data integration and the use of advanced algorithms. Irrigated agriculture is the world’ s largest consumer of water, accounting for 70% of water withdrawals and 90% of total consumption according to the FAO. There is a pressing need to reduce this ...
By Idrica
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New products from BASF at Focus Fruit 2022
R&D manufacturer, BASF, is previewing two new products for the fruit industry, Revysol® and Nemaslug® 2.0, at this year’s Fruit Focus taking place at NIAB EMR, Kent on 13th July 2022. Revysol® is renowned in the cereal sector for offering highly effective broad-spectrum control of diseases and is awaiting approval for use in the fruit sector. Nemaslug 2.0 is a highly ...
By Comexposium
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Plant app Update: An Integrated view of plant and soil. Plus: NDVI inside
“Nature is pleased with simplicity", goes the quote by the great Sir Isaac Newton, and we're pleased to introduce a new update of the Plant mobile app, designed to simplify decision making. "The new layout allows seeing climate data, irrigation summary, irrigation spans, plant status, plant graphs, and soil graphs, on one view", Says. Monitoring and Analysis products manager. Omer Sagee. ...
By Phytech
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Pivot App update: Water allocation, NDVI and much more
Our Pivot App has been recently upgraded, giving row crops growers even better visibility of their plants, soil and irrigation status to support their decision making. Let's see what's new. NDVI inside NDVI maps have been added without additional cost to all our customers. With Sentinel-2 NDVI images for each plot, every 5 days (depending on cloud cover) growers have another significant data ...
By Phytech
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Irrigation automation without data integration burden
Automated irrigation systems can both reduce labor costs and improve irrigation efficiency but have not yet seen widespread adoption. This is because most solutions only offer irrigation recommendations, leaving it to the farmer to solve integration of the irrigation control. Vinduino solves that problem with an affordable system that fully integrates accurate predictive intelligence ...
By Vinduino LLC
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How NIAB EMR research institute use Delta-T Devices soil sensors to improve crop yield and quality
Our second video featuring Dr Mark Else (NIAB EMR’s Head of Crop Science) looks in detail at how the NIAB EMR research teams use the Delta-T Devices WET-2 and SM150T Sensors to monitor soil moisture, temperature and pore EC (electrical conductivity) within their WET Centre strawberry ...
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Human rights to water of millions endangered by large-scale agriculture and industries
There are currently 2.2 billion people, or nearly a third of the global population, who lack safely managed drinking water. Of this figure, 450 million children face poor drinking water services and water scarcity, putting them in situations of high or extreme water vulnerability. The labour costs of water collection, including that of time spent to collect water and associated security ...
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Irrigate for Profit
Smart irrigation, synchronized fertilizer control, flow rate monitoring At Vinduino, every day is smart irrigation day. We help farmers irrigate for profit: improve crop results and water efficiency, while saving labor. The Vinduino wireless irrigation controller can uniquely operate a fertilizer pump, multiple irrigation valves, and track flow rate per irrigation block. The system works with ...
By Vinduino LLC
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Ever-Expanding
Cassinelli Landscaping & Construction first got its beginnings in 1975 by installing tract sprinklers in Carson City, Nevada. As the years progressed, the company soon expanded into working in the commercial market, installing landscape areas for convenience stores, grocery stores, and fast-food restaurants. In 2021, the company has since moved from Carson City to Dayton. The company is known ...
By MB Crusher
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By September 2021, SupPlant`s sensor-less technology will be implemented by 500,000 farmers in Kenya
SupPlant has raised $10 million in a funding round co-led by Boresight Capital, Menomadin Foundation, Smart-Agro Fund and Mivtah Shamir. The investment brings SupPlants’s total funding since the company was founded in 2012 to over $19 million. SupPlant’s technology is designed for the world’s 450 million small growers. By September 2021, the sensor-less technology will be ...
By SupPlant
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