The domestic drip irrigation system, developed by city-based environment and wildlife filmmaker Vilas Kane, uses the principle of capillary motion to water plants. He created the model after several ...

Atpadi, a taluka (administrative division) in the Sangli district of southern Maharashtra, covers approximately 60 villages with a population of over 1.5 lakh (1,50,000). It falls on the upper reaches ...

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 ...

A predictive model combining information about plant physiology, real-time soil conditions and weather forecasts can help make more informed decisions about when and how much to irrigate. This could ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1243989 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1243989 Copy URL A dynamic programming model that allocates irrigations among competing crops, while ...

A new model of minor irrigation through sub-surface porous vessels (SSPV) being developed here is set to benefit the farmers with small land holdings in the villages of the Thar desert. Experiments ...

ISLAMABAD: Though drip irrigation has gradually been braced by progressive farmers at some scale, the adaptation of this water-saving technology in the water-stressed regions of the country has been ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Fresh water isn't unlimited. Rainfall isn't predictable. And plants aren't always thirsty. Just 3 percent of the world's water is drinkable, and more than 70 percent of that fresh water ...