Plants need water, and people aren’t always around to provide it. I realized this fact when a wildfire engulfed my rural ...

Hull-based Liquid Lever Irrigation Ltd has secured funding from the Growing the Humber programme as part of a £310k project to develop products for the horticultural sector creating 11 jobs. Setting ...

Agriculture, which consumes about 70% of global freshwater, is grappling with increased water scarcity and inefficient irrigation systems. Traditional methods of irrigation not only lead to wasted ...

Agricultural irrigation is an energy intensive operation. Pressurized irrigation systems, especially center pivot sprinkler installations, use a high flow rate pump and require a large electric motor ...

According to the new system, a six-foot gap is laid between each row where the seed-sticks are planted."The six-foot space is necessary for drip irrigation and mechanised farming. MADURAI: A new ...

An irrigation method uses 50 percent less water than traditional systems to grow potatoes – an important finding for the $131 million-a-year Florida crop. University of Florida Institute of Food and ...