Irrigation

Valley® Irrigation is Taking the First Step Toward Creating Unified Farm Management with Irrigation ExchangeT, Cutting-Edge Technology Embedded in the Valley BaseStation3T Irrigation Remote Control and Monitoring Product

Massive amounts of data are being generated every day on the farm. Making this information useful can be challenging, especially as an increasing number of systems generate multiple streams of unstructured, unintegrated data. Wouldn't it be nice if all those applications worked together to make farm management easier?

Trimble Announced the Launch of the WM-Form™ Land Forming Solution for Leveling, Surface Drainage and Irrigation

Two Companies Are Taking a New Look at Drip Irrigation and Offering New Approaches

Getting water to plants only when they need it would be ideal irrigation, and that’s the idea behind Root Demand Irrigation from Valley Irrigation. The subsurface system will water fields without the need for an emitter.

Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture, in Cooperation with HortiMaX, is Improving the Water Efficiency at the Sweet Pepper Farm All Green in Egypt by Automation of the Crop Irrigation

Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture is collaborating with the Dutch horticultural industry to expand the possibilities to import biological control organisms and to use further automation of crop irrigation. 

Ghana and Togo Have Signed an Agreement that Paves the Way for a Major Irrigation Infrastructure Project Linking the Neighbouring African Nations

The African Water Facility (AWF) has offered a €1.4 million grant to Ghana to support the technical, legal and financial preparation of the public-private partnership (PPP) project, which is designed to support Togo’s capital Lome and Ghana’s coastal communities.

Farmers in the Barind Tracts are Being Encouraged to Adopt “Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD)”, an Irrigation Method which Helps Save Water in Aquifers Amidst an Abnormal Decline in the Level of Underground Water

The farmers are also being suggested to cultivate wheat instead of only Irri-Boro paddy in the drought-prone dry areas, comprising 25 upazilas of Rajshahi, Naogaon and Chapainawabganj districts.

Meet the Vietnamese Farmer Who Texts to Water His Crop

All that the farmer, who graduated as an automotive engineer, needs is what he jokingly describes as a “throwaway mobile phone,” and a self-created system to remotely water his 200 hectares of dozens of different kinds of vegetables in Binh Tan District.

A control box is located at the doorway to the farm, which can be turned on and off via a simple message sent from his mobile phone, Tam said.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development has approved the grant proposal of Unesco-IHE, Meta Meta and World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) for spate irrigation for rural economic growth