irrigation research News
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IWMI elevates research collaboration in Bangladesh
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) signed an MOU with the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) on March 24, 2024, as it opened the doors of its new Bangladesh office in the capital Dhaka. IWMI and BARC’s partnership is a collaborative effort to strengthen research in irrigation and agriculture water management aligning with the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100. The ...
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How much water is used for irrigation in European agriculture?
Agriculture plays a large role in the management of water in the EU. However, there is little consistent information on water use in irrigation. New EU supported research has estimated how much water is used for irrigation in European countries, providing a framework to analyse agricultural pressures on water quantity. Water scarcity is an increasing problem in the EU and the situation is ...
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Improving knowledge about water in Australia’s north
A suite of research bulletins summarises outcomes from the Northern Australia Irrigation Futures (NAIF) project – a partnership established to develop new knowledge, tools and processes to support debate and decision-making regarding irrigation in the north. NAIF Steering Committee Chairman Ian Lancaster says the research outcomes will inform current policy development for the north and can help ...
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Irrigation method saves 50 percent of water needed for potato growth
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers have found an irrigation method that uses 50 percent less water than traditional systems to grow potatoes – an important finding for the $131 million-a-year Florida crop. The system is called “hybrid center pivot irrigation.” With this method, about two-thirds of the water used to help grow potatoes ...
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Plants host pathogenic bacteria from livestock farming
Disease-causing bacteria resulting from livestock farming can contaminate food products and find their way to humans. This occurs remarkably effectively via plants, which explains why recent outbreaks due to infection with EHEC and other E. coli and Salmonella strains are regularly attributed to the consumption of fresh vegetables. These are the findings of researchers from Wageningen UR ...
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Water Supply & Irrigation Systems in Canada Industry Market Research Report Now Available from IBISWorld
The Water Supply and Irrigation Systems industry's performance has been buoyed by high demand over the five years to 2013, according to IBISWorld industry analyst Nima Samadi. Revenue is expected to increase an average 3.0% annually to $6.4 billion during the period. Despite the recession, demand for water remained high since 2008, as droughts and other dry weather conditions created a need for ...
By IBISWorld
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Prior herbicide use—not irrigation—is critical to herbicide efficacy
Crop and herbicide use history are more critical to herbicide efficacy and environmental safety than the timing and amount of irrigation water used, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. ARS plant physiologists Dale Shaner and Lori Wiles made this discovery from ongoing experiments on two irrigated fields at Colorado State University (CSU) at Fort Collins, Colo. Shaner ...
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Plastic-Puglia: Watering your crops while saving resources
In summer, keeping a vegetable garden well watered means keeping an open tap like you haven’t seen since your last kegger in college. When the little rainfall in winter can make it seem like summer year-round, our finite resource such as water becomes ever more precious, in spite of the few rainstorms that did pass through in winter. Since the last few years, world has become ...
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How vulnerable to climate change is agriculture in the Black Sea region?
The impacts of climate change in the Black Sea region are likely to affect agriculture in Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, new research suggests. The number of days of plant growth was reduced in these countries as a result of reduced precipitation, increased temperatures and low capacity for irrigation to supplement water needs. A strong legal framework is necessary to ...
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Vegetables can absorb heavy metals from contaminated irrigation water
Certain vegetables take up heavy metals from contaminated water used for irrigation, a new study finds. The researchers grew vegetables in greenhouses similar to field conditions in Greece and found that concentrations of nickel and chromium increased in potatoes and onions, but not in carrots, when irrigated with water containing contaminant levels similar to those found in industrial ...
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