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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. ...
Netafim, the global leader of precision irrigation solutions and agricultural projects and part of the Orbia community of companies, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dutch turn-key greenhouse project provider Gakon Horticultural Projects. ...
ByOrbia
Volunteers from across the nation fanned out across the grounds and completed projects including: 108 acres aerated, 5 acres limed, 46 acres received phosphorus, 4 trees received lightning protection, 3 Irrigation projects completed, 1 large retaining wall built, and And the children’s program planted 300 annuals and 15 shrubs at ...
The water will then irrigate almond groves and other agriculture as an arm of the Central Valley Project, a federal water management program. Modesto’s wastewater will find its way to farms as far as 20 miles away in the northwestern San Joaquin Valley, where farmers on 45,000 acres in the Del Puerto Water District are having trouble ...
Minimizing the ecological footprint and the waste of the available resources is the aim of the company: Irritec does not only produce single items but carries out real projects designing and supplying complete irrigation systems. From the product to its application, technical and agronomic consulting, assistance on the field: Irritec is a reference company for ...
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. ...
ByGeoflow
Like the rest of the state, the southern coastal region is locked in a drought and largely cut off from the flow of surface water from the state’s big irrigation projects. Avocado groves have been hit badly with sky-high water costs and reliance on water pumped from underground aquifers. ...
FIGARO, an EU-funded international project focused on developing a new precision agriculture Decision Support System (DSS) to improve irrigation management for increasing water productivity, will hold a three-day conference in Israel September 7–9, 2016. ...
ByFIGARO
The second application featured in the video takes place in Monterey, CA. The project started as a salt water intrusion barrier and has evolved into the largest agricultural reuse irrigation project in the United States. ...
The impact of the automation projects specifically focuses on reducing labour; these are engineering projects that automate labour-intensive work. ...
This year we focus our support on a sustainable irrigation project. Target group are 1,540 farmer families including sugar cane farmers and surrounding communities in the Runde region, Zimbabwe, Africa. ...
The FIGARO Project (Flexible and Precise Irrigation Platform to Improve Farm Scale Water Productivity) will hold a presentation at the Watec Israel 2013 Exhibition and Conference, which will take place October 22–24, 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel. ...
ByFIGARO
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in California is providing funds to improve the efficiency of agricultural water use in the South San Joaquin Irrigation District (SSJID), Division Nine Irrigation Enhancement Project Area. ...
The productivity of most cereals in India would decrease due to rise in temperature and decline in water availability. “A projected loss of 10 to 40 percent will occur in crop production by 2100,” he said. ...
Senator Wong said the On-Farm Irrigation Infrastructure Program was open to irrigators in the Southern Basin and the Lachlan River catchment. ...
Because of the travel distances involved, many farmers chose to irrigate their crops during the day and lose water to evaporation, instead of irrigating at night when conditions are ideal. ...
ByABB
If we don't start to make this adjustment now, irrigators and the communities who depend on them face a far tougher and more abrupt cut in the future. ...
A sum of $2 million has been fast-tracked for activities relating to Queensland's Priority Project, the Healthy HeadWaters Program, which will identify water savings and investment opportunities in on-farm irrigation technology and sustainable practices. 'The accelerated funding will contribute towards the 'District Level Irrigation Planning ...
Three water management projects will share in $5.6 million in funding under the Rudd Government’s On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency (Pilot Projects) Program, Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, said today. ...
In a recent agreement signed between the countries, Swaziland will benefit from EUR 63 million which will be spent on projects focusing on human development, which will receive EUR 21 million, and water supply, sanitation and irrigation which will receive EUR 29 million. The EU is quick to note that the funds mentioned would not aid the Micro ...