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reducing global land-use change and also mean fewer reservoirs and river diversions for irrigation oe currently 70%of our freshwater use goes on agriculture.
It was allowed irrigation which such large amounts of wheat to be grown oe but falling water levels brought the Middle east's first agricultural revolution to an end.
and micro-drip irrigation systems. The store holds demos, promotions, and free training sessions. One of the keys to Farm Shop's radical overhaul is that it has done away with the incredibly cumbersome, slow,
 Technology, such as drip irrigation, would help, as would desalination plants along the coast, he said,
irrigation,"green  chemicals and tools along with training manuals and advise on how to farm efficiently.
but at that price also includes a drip irrigation kit and water tank. Backpack Farm says that
composting, and drip irrigation. What we do is help farmers be better green farmers, Zedeck says,
The dam has been an outstanding economic success, bringing improved harvests from better irrigation despite drought conditions, hydropower and flood protection worth billions of dollars.
Much like this rooftop hydroponic farm, the Brightfarm rooftop greenhouse in the South Bronx will be harvesting rainwater from the building for irrigation,
The situation is much the same at Jain Irrigation which cannot find all the workers it wants for $15-an-hour jobs running expensive machinery that spins out precision irrigation tubing at 600 feet a minute, 24 hours a day, seven
days a week. The job requires at least a high school education, and maybe some technical training,
Fresno is home to 160 companies that make products such as irrigation components that provide exact water flows,
Dams And Agriculture Pose Big Threat Inefficient agricultural irrigation and draw offs for the increasing number of hydroelectric dams in the country are among the factors drying up important wetlands in Turkey.
so that the plants receive equal light, good air flow and irrigation. The whole system has a footprint of only about 60 square feet,
at times, to cook buns. 5. Irrigation Irrigation is the artificial application of water to land or soil.
Irrigation canals are the blood vessels of agriculture, delivering water throughout America s farmland. Pretty soon, they may well deliver a bit of electricity too, thanks to the Hydrovolt micro-generator.
is sized a compact car device that sits on a irrigation canal s floor and utilizes the steady,
In addition to the irrigation canal model, Hydrovolts also has a larger version, the C3, in the works that should produce up to 20kw from the bottom of aqueducts.
West Texas is a dry area that uses irrigation to grow wheat cotton and other crops,
Submissions ranged from self-filling water bottles, to extreme dehumidification, to a large-scale water sources for greenhouse drip irrigation, to emergency water for lifeboats, to self-filling canteens for the military,
Fogquest http://www. fogquest. org Fogquest is a Canadian nonprofit that uses modern fog collectors to bring drinking water and water for irrigation and reforestation to rural communities in developing countries
ID=1722 Developed by James Dyson Award winner, Edward Linnacre, the Airdrop irrigation concept was developed for poor agricultural conditions in periods of severe drought.
Airdrop Irrigation works to provide a solution to this problem. Moisture is harvested out of the air to irrigate crops through an efficient system that produces large amounts of condensation.
and pumped to the roots of crops via sub surface drip irrigation hosing. A2wh http://a2wh. com/Developed by Joe Ellsworth in Seattle,
It was allowed irrigation which such large amounts of wheat to be grown but falling water levels brought the Middle east s first agricultural revolution to an end.
so any uptick in usage could lead to enormous gains Two of the most important technologies in farming are irrigation and fertilizers,
Irrigation schemes, meanwhile, require government support, which has until now been virtually absent. Once these two proven techniques become more widespread,
In the absence of fixed irrigation such low-cost, improvised irrigation methods are gaining ground and helping to improve yields.
What about more advanced technology? For years African governments opposed the genetic modification of crops,
Irrigation schemes are practically nonexistent. Transport links are terrible; where proper roads do exist, you ll often see police roadblocks capriciously set up to extract bribes from drivers.
what it is today#rovided farmers gain access to things like capital, electricity, and irrigation.
#Precision agriculture moves farmers into the high tech age A variable rate irrigation system installed to water crops saves hundreds of thousands of gallons of water.
#In Idaho, the nonprofit is collaborating with Millercoors to support farmers who upgrade their irrigation systems to new precision agriculture systems.
and computer-controlled irrigation covering thousands of acres that conserve millions of gallons of water each day.#
Yet the central technology in this effortvariable rate irrigation (VRI) wasn t a commercial endeavor delivered directly to farmers clamoring for the technology.
and makes good use of drip irrigation system. The garden will shower added natural freshness in office areas,
and much more. 2. Water Harvesting Irrigation Spikes Will it someday be possible to add atmospheric water harvesting ground-spikes next to every plant or tree in our garden?
planting, irrigation, etc. Scientifically viable in 2018; mainstream in 2020; and financially viable in 2021.
and crop irrigation is one of the most basic requirements for maintaining and improving human health.
></p><p>From lawns to flood irrigation here are five ways that people waste water
Around the world most farming relies on flood irrigation — where fields are drenched with water and the excess runs off into nearby streams and rivers.</
</p><p>But flood irrigation wastes tons of water and can pollute waterways with fertilizers creating<a href=http://www. livescience. com/221-gulf-dead-zone-starts-earlier-grow-larger. html>dead zones in the ocean</a>(where oxygen is used up
</p><p>Some regions such as Israel have moved to highly efficient drip irrigation which directs water right onto the roots of the plant.
What 11 Billion People Mean for Water Scarcity From lawns to flood irrigation here are five ways that people waste water
Irrigation Agriculture uses about 70 percent of the available freshwater on the planet. Around the world most farming relies on flood irrigation where fields are drenched with water and the excess runs off into nearby streams and rivers.
But flood irrigation wastes tons of water and can pollute waterways with fertilizers creating dead zones in the ocean (where oxygen is used up
and not available for marine creatures) and contributing to algal blooms which can be toxic to marine life.
Some regions such as Israel have moved to highly efficient drip irrigation which directs water right onto the roots of the plant.
(and can according to existing law) offer lower rates to farmers who embrace low-risk water-smart practices like cover cropping no-till farming and more efficient irrigation.
About 40 percent of China's farmland relies on underground water for irrigation and an estimated 90 percent is polluted Reuters reports.
The Nourishmat Garden System a 4-by-6 mat with a planting grid and built-in irrigation was designed in 2011 as a way to make home gardening simple and accessible to anyone with a few square feet of space
For instance many farmers are now using methods like flow-through irrigation drip irrigation micro-sprinklers and more efficient use of groundwater to increase yields.
While the days of farmers using the divining rod to find water are passed long since many farmers especially in developing countries still rely too much on guesswork in making planting irrigation and harvesting decisions.
In the Old world traditions may need to change with the times as appellation regulations restrict irrigation wine-making practices
which provides the most agriculturally important irrigation in the state of Kansas and is a key source of drinking water for the region.
If current irrigation trends continue unabated 69 percent of the available groundwater will be drained in the next five decades the researchers said in a study published online today (Aug 26) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
That's happening because of increased irrigation technology crop genetics and management strategies. But in some areas of the country's plains the properties of the groundwater and soil largely dictate the irrigation techniques Scanlon said.
In parts of Texas and Kansas the groundwater is brinier which means if some farmers employ more efficient irrigation techniques they will also be pumping up salty deposits that are washed not adequately away by rainfall.
This is a very nice study but we really need to address droughts and socioeconomic issues and other approaches to figure out the problem beyond the technical Scanlon said.
#Western Crop Watering May Make Wetter East Coast Summers SAN FRANCISCO Intensive irrigation in the Western United states could be causing wetter summers on the East Coast new research suggests.
Agricultural irrigation can contribute to downstream precipitation said study co-author Travis Andrews a doctoral candidate in earth and environmental sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
whether irrigation could play a role as well: Agriculture accounts for 70 percent of all water use on the planet
and many other variables to look at how irrigation affected rainfall patterns. The team found that about half of the water fed to thirsty crops in the Western parts of the country evaporated into the atmosphere where air currents carried it to the Northeast.
On average about 0. 5 inches (1. 2 cm) of rain fell on the Northeast during June and a July as a result of the heavy irrigation the model found.
The impact of irrigation isn't all that surprising given that the western United states poured enough water into crop irrigation to fill the entire Great lakes region with 2. 3 feet (0. 7 meters) of water
All told irrigation could account for about a quarter of the increased sogginess on the East Coast though global warming is likely responsible for the rest he speculated.
We can't stop the irrigation; it's critically important for food security especially in the face of more droughts Andrews said.
Flood irrigation a practice in which farmers drench fields with water from hoses or other sources creates runoff that carries pesticides into local rivers
and use drip irrigation to target water directly to a plant's roots. Conversion to drip irrigation is happening albeit slowly.
In the United states the National Resources Conservation Service offsets some costs of implementing water-sparing irrigation.
However many farmers don't know about these programs and installing drip irrigation requires placing irrigation tape underground which is labor-intensive and costly.
This method may not work with crops in which tilling could frequently cut the underground infrastructure Greenberg said.
although Greenberg said she sees more and more sprinkler systems replacing wasteful flood-irrigation systems. In another solution seawater or treated wastewater could replace freshwater for crops Davies said.
or in places where irrigation channels or irrigated areas return or leak some water. In the mid-1980s scientists noted that accidental releases of water into the Colorado river Delta
and the remnants of the superabsorbent gel from the diapers could be added to soils that don't retain moisture well to reduce the amount of irrigation needed the researchers added.
Top 10 Surprising Results of Global Warming He and his co-authors estimated past global temperatures with climate models that calculated the effects of land-cover changes such as deforestation and irrigation.
I told him I wanted to go back to school he forked over quite a few irrigation dollars to help.
and irrigation. All these elements of the agricultural Green revolution requires large amounts of energy. Imagine how much energy it takes to dig up phosphorus-bearing minerals grind
and requires irrigation which forces a community to work together Talhelm said. Wheat farming on the other hand is a more individualistic pursuit.
Although the area is very arid they were cultivating crops along the river just by managing irrigation
Though there is pressure from agricultural interests to keep that water for irrigation environmental advocates argue that increased flows are necessary to protect both the environment and the economy.
Possible solutions include installing drip rather than spray irrigation; planting annual crops such as lettuce that can be tailored to wet and dry years
and set aside their traditional system of cooperative irrigation scheduling. But within a year or two farmers saw a devastating increase in pestilence and water shortages.
either because of geographical barriers such as Egypt's desert or practical ones such as the need to access to irrigation people have to put up with more abuse of power from their leaders.
A classic example is the development of irrigation systems which allowed crops to be grown further away from rivers and water sources.
Although the role of irrigation systems in creating despotic states has been overstated in the past they certainly would have created an opportunity for would-be leaders to behave entrepreneurially by managing their construction.
Those that chose to follow their agricultural-technologist leader would then benefit from access to irrigation.
This would become even more extreme with irrigation farming where farmers would be tied to the system.
The parasite egg hails from the Fertile Crescent a region around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the middle East where some of the first irrigation techniques were invented about 7500 years ago.
Studies in Africa in modern times have shown that farming irrigation and dams are by far the most common reasons why people get Schistosomiasis Mitchell told Live Science.
Although the centuries have wiped away any traces of irrigation technology at Tell Zeidan remnants of wheat
but it would have flourished with irrigation Stein told Live Science. The site also lies on a floodplain where the Euphrates and Balikh Rivers meet.
Even today farmers along Egypt's Nile river use similar irrigation methods. The farmers could have waded into the water-covered fields to do weeding
more land 11 times more irrigation water five times more greenhouse-gas emissions and six times more fertilizer is needed compared to
Compared to plants nonbeef animals require an average of six times as much land half as much irrigation water two times as much greenhouse-gas emissions and three times as much fertilizer use.
In contrast the same number of calories from beef is much more taxing on the environment requiring 160 times more land eight times more irrigation water 11 times more greenhouse-gas emissions and 19 times more fertilizer
They found that the ditches leading from Mummy Lake to the southern structures couldn't have functioned as water canals or irrigation distribution systems.
and sediment to streams and groundwater greatly affecting Navajos'drinking and irrigation water supplies in the future according to a new University of Colorado report published in May about climate change and adaptation on the Navajo Nation.
and Hopi tribal governments asking for access to irrigation water and if it doesn t come through Yazzie said he
A drip irrigation system works better than sprinklers as it sends targeted amounts of water exactly where you want.
if you qualify for a rebate to make your irrigation system more water efficient. EPA Watersense Rebate Finder Upgrade:
building appropriate irrigation systems and creating jobs outside the farming sector in the regions likely to suffer the most could all help to adapt to climate change,
yields could actually rise as a result of technological advancements, better management and improved irrigation systems, she says.
Nature Newschina must rapidly improve its outdated irrigation infrastructure if its ambitious plans to save water are to be realized,
China's irrigation systems reach less than half of the total farmland. In Henan province, for instance,
Most of the irrigation systems in China were built in the 1950s and are maintained poorly. Moreover, most farmers use flood irrigation-where water is allowed to flood an entire field-a millennia-old practice that wastes a great deal of water.
To meet the ambitious water-conservation target China must modernize its irrigation infrastructure and switch to drip irrigation, says Haim Gvirtzman, a hydrologist at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.
Drip irrigation is by far the most water-efficient method of irrigation, whereby water is delivered at or near the root zone of plants, drop by drop, through an extensive web of tubing.
Switching to drip irrigation would help to save at least half of the water, says Gvirtzman. It's cheaper in the long run, too.
The level of water resources per person in Israel is only 12%of that in China,
he adds. By using water more effectively -and by recycling 70%of its sewage water for agricultural irrigation-Israel gets by with the very limited water at its disposal.
Many believe that China also needs to have a long-term, systemic plan to restore its over-extracted groundwater.
irrigation water and air and nitrogen loss. Their field experiments show that this optimal level,
Irrigation reform needed in Asia: Nature Newsinternational experts have called for urgent changes to the way water is used in farming throughout Asia.
the Food and agriculture organization of the united nations and the Asia-Pacific Water Forum warns that Asian countries must modernize their ageing irrigation systems
Most of the irrigation infrastructure was built in the 1960s and 1970s during the Green revolution that allowed Asian agriculture to flourish.
state-funded irrigation systems that powered the Green revolution helped Asian countries to become self-sufficient in food production,
By lowering food prices, they also discouraged further investment in irrigation systems. The report was motivated by the spike in food prices in 2007-08
yet the irrigation systems were designed principally for cereal production. A lot of 1970s irrigation had to do with canals surface irrigation,
says Colin Chartres, director-general of the IWMI. These surface-irrigation systems have fallen into disrepair since the 1990s for a variety of reasons
including poor maintenance by governments. Many were not set up to properly cater to farmer's needs
The main alternative to these old irrigation systems is allowing farmers to tap directly into groundwater themselves known as atomistic irrigation.
The report backs this form of irrigation, as long as it is regulated tightly. The unregulated use of groundwater means that
although surface irrigation has been shrinking in Asia, the total area of irrigated land has been expanding.
This report aims to increase the productivity of irrigation, not by using more water but by making irrigation systems more efficient, says Chartres.
Two recent papers show that groundwater supplies in Asia have been decreasing much faster than was previously thought1, 2. James Famiglietti of the University of California, Irvine,
In the United states for example, irrigation demand is putting tremendous pressure on groundwater both in California's Central Valley and in the Ogallala aquifer in the High Plains in the centre of the country.
The report calls for more education for farmers and others working in the irrigation sector and for investment in programmes to cut the overall need for water such as building better roads
The authors also suggest involving the private sector in managing the irrigation systems to take some of the burden off governments.
and made the irrigation system useless, he explains. Storms like this should have replenished just the water table
Pakistan faces long-term damage to irrigation system: Nature Newspakistan faces a critical week as flood surges continue to destroy homes and farmland.
water is being diverted from the swollen Indus river into irrigation canals. But engineers are warning that these canals are becoming swamped,
The Pakistan Irrigation and Power Department has declared many embankments along a 160-mile stretch of the Indus in the Sindh province to be in danger of breaking.
and resource management, is leading an irrigation project in Sindh. Based on conversations with his engineers currently working in Pakistan,
and this will affect normal irrigation once waters recede, says Davey. Without adequate irrigation, severe food shortages will become even more likely over the coming months.
The Asian Development Bank, which is leading the first assessment of the flooding, says that 80,000 livestock have perished already
Developing countries, such as India, have used traditionally surface-irrigation systems, which use gravity to distribute water over the soil surface.
or relying on surface irrigation, which wastes a lot of water. Wastewater recycling also has an important role,
In the 1970s, researchers began characterizing the remains of elaborate irrigation canals found in wetland areas.
while allowing access to the irrigation water. Beach says that surveys carried out using Google earth
and Ruddiman, of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, argues that it is no coincidence the clearing of land and expansion of irrigation released huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Possible actions include improving irrigation increasing fertilization and promoting the use of land-management techniques that integrate forests with agriculture.
She added that the technique should be combined with modern techniques such as irrigation, and the use of machinery.
so that they can tolerate irrigation with sea water? It would be really presumptuous of me to say,
and increased use of irrigation.""Our study can help diagnose successful interventions and prioritize our efforts to close yield gaps at the regional and global scale,
But sceptics are most critical of the study's suggestion that increased irrigation can close crop-yield gaps sustainably.
Mueller and Foley plan to tackle the trade-offs associated with increasing irrigation next.""We need to find ways to take the pressure off water-sensitive regions by perhaps intensifying agriculture elsewhere,
suggests that farmers are making use of just 10-25%of the land where wheat can be grown profitably without irrigation.
including, for example, permitted levels of microbes in irrigation water. SOURCE: NIHSUCCESS rates stuck The success rate for grant applicants to the US National institutes of health (NIH) remained unchanged at a historic low of 18%in 2012 (see graph),
barring a change in current irrigation trends, nearly 70 percent of the resource could be depleted in the next half century.
Even as improvements in irrigation technology over the next two decades enable farmers to do more with less,
with the advent of groundwater pumping and sprinkler irrigation, farmers returned to the land to grow corn
In California s Central Valley, where farmers use water flowing from the Colorado river Basin for irrigation,
If farmers using water-efficient irrigation methods are encouraged similarly to grow less water-intensive crops
Such detail could inform decisions on fertilizer and irrigation use, but is currently out of reach of most farmers.
Irrigation call Global yields of maize (corn) could rise by 67%by 2050 if farmers in the developing world stopped tilling their soil and began irrigating their fields,
To turn deserts into a viable spot for carbon sequestration the researchers assembled a diverse team of specialists with knowledge ranging from irrigation and carbon sequestration to desalination and economics.
The paper suggests planting Jatropha curcas in the desert along the coast of the Arabian peninsula setting up a desalination plant to provide the water needed for irrigation
You could look at the Saudi arabian irrigation gif and say oh that's a positive if you'd like
Checking fences crops herds irrigation lost animals etc. I don't know jack about farming but I could certainly think of uses for a small cheap drone.
Forty percent of the state s farmland is submerged regularly by flood irrigation and farmers grow crops (such as rice) more appropriate to a wetland environment.
Likewise infection from common irrigation sources was one of the primary ways the Gros Michel version of Panama Disease spread in the mid-20th century.
Food security depends on irrigation--farmers are main water userswater scarcity is a major threat for human development as for instance food security in many regions depends on irrigation--agriculture is the main water user worldwide
Now a new analysis combining climate agricultural and hydrological models finds that shortages of freshwater used for irrigation could double the detrimental effects of climate change on agriculture.
So the effect of limited irrigation availability in some regions could end up doubling the effect of climate change.
The two types of models overlap in estimating the amount of water used for agricultural irrigation by far the largest human use of freshwater in the world.
or add irrigation to rain-fed crop areas could dampen some of the consequences of climate change upon irrigation
Upgrades in irrigation systems can reduce water loss from 30 percent to almost zero. And careful water management can stop excess water from flooding fields and leaching valuable nutrients from the soil.
These systems provide growers with real-time data needed to make irrigation decisions said Dr. Andrew Mcelrone a US Department of agriculture
Specifically they wanted to know how irrigation levels waterlogged tomatoes and crop and pathogen genotypes affect salmonella's ability to multiply in the fruit.
Changing irrigation patterns caused little change in the potential for salmonella researchers found. Tomato maturity and cultivar particular strains of salmonella and seasonal differences were the strongest factors affecting proliferation.
Although improved technology--including the unsustainably high use of fertilisers irrigation and ploughing--provides a false sense of security about 1%of global land area is degraded every year.
They also investigated the impact of increasing either substrate depth or the amount of irrigation on Manilagrass growth and recovery potential during and after moisture deficit periods.
and two irrigation regimes replicated five times. The results showed that during moisture deficit periods green turf cover (GTC) normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)
and leaf relative water content (RWC) were affected most by substrate depth moderately affected by irrigation regime
Turfgrass growth and physiological status were best during moisture deficit conditions in the deeper profile (15 cm) using the higher amount of irrigation (6 mm) and the locally mixed substrate.
if substrate depth must be reduced to 7. 5 cm then irrigation should exceed 6 mm every 3 days to have adequate growth and successfully overcome summer moisture deficit periods they recommended.
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