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Saudi Arabia Agro Fair October-2017
We participated to the International Agriculture Fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with our strategic partner, SAUDI DRIP. During the fair, Geoflow TR was appreciated with its new technologies and Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) projects. Water is more valuable and less available in these geographical areas, thus there was a great interest to water-saving systems, such as SDI. Furthermore government ...
By Geoflow
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The principle that gardens need irrigation
1. Irrigation principle The amount of irrigation, the number of irrigation times and the time should be determined according to the water demand characteristics, growth stage, climate and soil conditions of medicinal plants, and timely, appropriate and reasonable irrigation. 2. The types of irrigation mainly include irrigation before planting, seedling irrigation, growth and irrigation, and ...
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Indian News Site Features Rivulis Irrigation CEO Speaking at Event in India
The following article was featured on the website, Smart Indian Agriculture. Vivian Fernandes reports on some of the interesting ideas being thrown up at the Confederation of Indian Industry’s event in Chandigarh on how advances in digital technology can drive Indian agriculture. How can a traditional company that sells drip irrigation equipment use advances in computing power and mobile ...
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Solar-powered irrigation improves food security in West Africa
Solar-powered irrigation that delivers water directly to plant roots could help ensure food security in Africa, say researchers. Their study in the Sudano-Sahel region of West Africa indicated that this irrigation method could increase both household income and nutritional intake, particularly during the dry season. The food supply in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa is considered insecure in ...
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Innovations in Sanitation and Irrigation Technologies Win Stockholm Water Prize and Stockholm Industry Water Award
Renowned sanitation innovator Dr. Peter Morgan was named the 2013 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate and Netafim, pioneers of drip irrigation, was announced as the winner of the 2013 Stockholm Industry Water Award. Both prizes will be presented by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) during the 2013 World Water Week in Stockholm this coming September. World class inventor improves the ...
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Innovations in sanitation and irrigation technologies win Stockholm Water Prize and Stockholm Industry Water Award
Renowned sanitation innovator Dr. Peter Morgan was named the 2013 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate and Netafim, pioneers of drip irrigation, was announced as the winner of the 2013 Stockholm Industry Water Award. Both prizes will be presented by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) during the 2013 World Water Week in Stockholm this coming September. World class inventor improves the ...
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Drip-irrigation pioneers receive Stockholm Industry Water Award
Netafim, the pioneer and world-leading provider of drip and micro-irrigation technology, today received the 2013 Stockholm Industry Water Award at a ceremony during the 23rd World Water Week in Stockholm. In the next few decades until 2050, global demand for water is expected to increase by 55 per cent. Agriculture stands out as the world’s thirstiest sector, accounting for 70 per cent of ...
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Silicon Technology from Dow Corning Helps to Improve Efficiency of Water Delivery
As countries around the world grapple with water shortages due to fast-growing populations and changing climates, silicon technology is helping farmers around the world irrigate their crops more efficiently, reducing the amount of water required. Solar-powered pumps and drip irrigation systems reduce water utilization on farms. (Photo: Business Wire) According to ...
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New Method of Installing Subsurface Drip Irrigation
The TRENCH’N edge Trencher has developed a new method of installing Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) and Waste Water Dispersion (WWD) systems that decrease installation cost and clean-up labor. “Our new method of installing these water saving and water recycling systems save and reuse a substantial amount of one of our most precious resource, fresh water” said Patrick Dean, ...
By Edge Inc.
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Farm machinery and sustainable agriculture must evolve together
Farm machines have revolutionized agriculture and reduced drudgery for millions of farm families and workers, but the machinery of tomorrow will have to do more than that – it will also have to contribute to agriculture that is environmentally sustainable. A new FAO book Mechanization for rural development, a review of patterns and progress from around the world, explores the inexorable ...
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Farm machinery and sustainable agriculture must evolve together
Farm machines have revolutionized agriculture and reduced drudgery for millions of farm families and workers, but the machinery of tomorrow will have to do more than that – it will also have to contribute to agriculture that is environmentally sustainable. A new FAO book Mechanization for rural development, a review of patterns and progress from around the world, explores the inexorable ...
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Watering the world
Original story at MIT News Many farms in drought-prone regions of the U.S. rely on drip irrigation as a water-saving method to grow crops. These systems pump water through long thin tubes that stretch across farm fields. Hundreds of dime-sized drippers along the length of each tube trickle water directly onto a plant’s base. A farmer can control the timing and amount of watering, ...
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New equipment has its place across two operations
Armed with a Field Crops Technology degree from NC State University, the fifth generation farmer came home after college, and several months later, had an opportunity to start a vegetable farming venture with his life-long friend, Walker Shelton. “This year, Walker and I grew 160 acres of cucumbers and 15 acres of specialty peppers that are drip irrigated thanks to a great water supply from ...
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Water and energy savings for irrigation and filtration systems
AZUD has an important number of patents and innovations, dedicating from the beginning important human and economic resources to research projects related to drip irrigation systems and filtration and water treatment systems. During EIMA 2014, which will be held in Bologna, Italy, from 12th to 16th November 2014, AZUD state-of-the-art technologies will be presented: AZUD PREMIER PC AS, ...
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For the Edge Announces New Irrigation Trencher for Subsurface Drip System
For the Edge, Inc. announces its new irrigation trencher designed specifically for the installation of Subsurface Drip Irrigation Systems. Consumer demand has been growing for subsurface drip irrigation systems because they save water and are environmentally friendly. The TRENCH’N edge Trencher is the most affordable and versatile trencher that can install these types of irrigation ...
By Edge Inc.
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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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Irrigation with treated waste water: A growing fact
There is a serious problem of lack of water worldwide, so much in quantity as in quality, due to different facts as low rainfall, high evaporation or the increase in the demand of water for different uses. This fact is favouring the search and use of non-conventional sources of water, which guarantee the continuous availability of water to its use in agriculture and landscaping. The use of the ...
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Seven billion: the real population scare is not what you think
If you believe the doomsday merchants, the scariest thing about this Halloween is the fact that the world’s population will pass seven billion on or near October 31. Population growth, however, is not the biggest skeleton in the closet when it comes to our planet’s ability to absorb human impact. Far more damaging than the booming birth rate in low income countries are the ...
By SciDev.Net
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