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Crop irrigation — watering the plants that make our food — is one of the most intensive uses of water in the world. This year, at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference, the biggest water conference ...

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 ...

Mallam Yakubu Adamu, who has been involved in irrigation farming in the Mutum area of Gassol Local Government Area of the state for many years, told our correspondent that he invested over five ...

CAVALIER, N.D. -- Robert Vivatson smiles at the memory of his initial foray into irrigation in the mid 1990s. "We had a traveling gun (wheeled cart with attached sprinkler) and 40 acres of irrigated ...

An international team led by UC Davis is working to connect 9,000 rural households in Guatemala with improved water management and climate-smart agriculture strategies, to increase food security and ...

Indian farmers are boosting pulse productivity using smart irrigation, improved seeds, and modern techniques that increase ...

PHILLIPSTON — As Red Apple Farm prepares for its fourth annual Sunflower Festival this weekend, the staff is pulling out all the stops to make sure a Level 3 drought doesn't ruin this season's apple ...

Today, I struggle to write. I know what I want YOU to know, and that I could show you with words how it feels to live in the farming community today. But I do not know how. I cannot find the words to ...

TO ensure a constant flow of water to more than 430 hectares of rice fields in the mountains of Barangay Malibay in San Miguel town and Barangay Kalawakan in Doña Remedios Trinidad (DRT) town, the ...

Leaders from Mandera County have agreed to begin identifying land for large-scale commercial agriculture through irrigation following a meeting with President William Ruto.The delegation, led by ...