Irrigation is a common agricultural/horticultural practice that uses a number of methods to add water to the soil in times of insufficient rain. Choosing the ...

Farmer James Nyamai states that drip irrigation has helped in growing at his farm Machakos county on Wednesday, January 21st, 2015. The chicken farm contains 2,043 chicks.[PHOTO: ANGELA MAINA/STANDARD ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Farmer James Nyamai states that drip irrigation has helped in growing at his farm Machakos ...

Not all crops require flood irrigation, and using it on wheat, corn, onions, garlic, sugarcane, and other winter crops causes water wastage and may even harm the crop itself. To address this, the ...

AJ Carrillo farms 18 acres outside of Hotchkiss, Colorado, in the high desert of the Western Slope about an hour southeast of Grand Junction. When he irrigates his peach orchard, water gushes from big ...

MANILA, Philippines — For decades, irrigation management in the Philippines has depended largely on manual monitoring, field inspections and on-the-ground reporting—an approach that worked in more ...

MULTAN, Nov 1 About 70 per cent of the country's water goes waste during irrigation, and in watercourses and canals due to seepage, says Mass Awareness for Water Conservation and Development Project ...

BOISE-- Could farmers prevent harm to the Boise river by upgrading their irrigation equipment? Is there a way to make that upgrade affordable? A group of local researchers hopes to answer all of those ...

India is the world's second-largest producer of wheat and rice and is home to more than 600 million farmers. The country has achieved impressive food-production gains since the 1960s, due in part to ...

Farmerswill soon be able to lease or purchase solar-powered irrigation systems throughflexible payment plans under a new government-backed programme aimed atreducing reliance on rainfall and boosting ...