With global water demand projected to rise substantially in coming decades, improving water productivity in agriculture is ...

Water scarcity and the high cost of energy represent the main problems for irrigation communities, which manage water for this end, making it available to agriculture. In a context of drought, with a ...

Stanford researchers developed a new tool to optimize irrigation systems to help farmers reduce their water usage. Daniel Tartakovsky, professor of energy science and engineering, and Weiyu Li Ph.D.

A predictive model combining information about plant physiology, real-time soil conditions and weather forecasts can save 40% of the water consumed by traditional irrigation strategies, according to ...

Farmers in the Semi-arid parts of Embu and adjacent counties are set to benefit from advanced irrigation technologies to produce food after the Israel government established an eight-acre model farm ...