Gujarat’s sustained push for efficient water management has delivered strong results, with 1.20 lakh hectares brought under ...

CLOVERDALE — On a hot afternoon in early September, Tygh Redfield stood on the edge of his hay field and surveyed the landscape. In the distance, a massive metal pivot slowly circled the ground, ...

A team of scientists, including a professor from New Mexico State University, suggests in a recently published paper that reliance on modern irrigation technologies as a water-use efficiency strategy ...

One of the first tasks assigned to the irrigation research team by Delaware farmers was to answer the decades old question of how to best irrigate corn on sandy soils for maximum yield. Our initial ...

Human existence boils down to one brutal fact: however much food you have, it’s enough to last for the rest of your life. Finding your next meal has always been the central organizing fact of life, ...

Farmers in the southeastern Khost Province are adopting modern farming methods to increase crop yields and raise their earnings. They are benefiting from the National Horticultural and Livestock ...

In order for plants to survive, they need sun and water. Unfortunately sun will deplete readily available water for plants in arid or semi-arid climates. Water provides nutrients to a plant so it can ...

THIS book gives a general account of irrigation suited to the reader who wishes to know something of its effects and of the way it is done without going into too much technical detail. The author ...

05 December 2009 Damascus - State Minister for Environment Affairs Kawkab al-Sabah Dayeh discussed on Saturday with Iranian Vice-President and Head of the Department of the Environment Mohammad-Javad ...

Picture a farm or garden, and you're likely to imagine crops planted in rows. Run water between the rows and you have furrow irrigation, one of humanity's oldest methods used to grow food. It's still ...