Irrigation

Vancouver's Farming Potential

Researchers are using 3-D modelling and water use data to learn just how much food can be grown in Vancouver and how much more water that will require as we morph into a truly edible city.

The Ministry of Agriculture in Egypt is aiming to achieve growth rates of up to 4.5% annually, creating approximately 1.6m jobs, increasing agricultural areas and reclaiming more land, according to Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Adel El-Beltagy.

The Vocational Education and Training Authority (VETA) has invented an automatic irrigation technology that has been designed to help farmers reduce production costs and increase yields. 

Speaking with The Guardian in an interview at the ending Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF), Veta Kipawa vocational electronics instructor Aneth Mganga said the new irrigation system can easily be affordable to small scale farmers to assist them raise their yields. 

China’s use of water for agriculture has come under scrutiny, with crops grown in water-stressed regions later exported to areas that experience lots of rain. Experts have said that the country needs to manage its land and water more sustainably.

China is putting enormous pressure on its already a- risk water resources by irrigating crops grown in regions where water is scarce and exporting them to other areas where water is abundant, according to new research.

The Syrian government signed a deal with a Russian firm Monday for the first phase of an irrigation project for the drought-hit northeast of the war-torn country, state media said.

The project, which had been planned before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted in March 2011, aims to draw water from the River Tigris to irrigate land in Hasakeh province.

The government still controls Hasakeh city but much of the surrounding province is in the hands of Kurdish militia or jihadists of the Islamic State.

Peru is poised to become a global power in agricultural exports through government’s further investments in high-tech irrigation works, the bolstering of private investment and the expansion of the nationwide network connectivity.

The country’s Prime Minister Rene Cornejo stressed Peru stands out worldwide as a top exporter of widely sought-after products in the agriculture sector which are produced in thousands of hectares along the coastal regions.

China's scarce water supply is being wasted as crops grown in water-stressed provinces are exported to wet, rainfall-rich areas, a study reports.

Farming accounts for about 65% of water use in China and the limited resource is coming under pressure from rapid urbanisation and industrialisation.

Officials have called the nation's water shortage a "grave situation" and called for strict water controls.

The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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