A new project funded by USAID to improve productivity in Bangladesh is building on the advances made in the WLE Project Community water management for improved food security, nutrition and livelihoods in the polders of the coastal zone of Bangladesh.
The cooperative that holds the distinction of being the world’s “first solar irrigation cooperative” was felicitated for providing its members “smart income” from energy sales to a local discom.
Egyptian farmers use a plow developed by Atef Swelam, not pictured, the scientist who developed the plow on behalf of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), on a land in Kafr Hamouda village, in Zagazig, 63 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of Cairo, Egypt. The plow could one day help Egypt alleviate water shortages that threaten to cripple the Arab world’s most populous country in the next decade.
"For a thousand years," Abdullah Sheikh's family has been working the land the same way - flooding fields in Egypt's Nile Delta and planting seeds by hand. But now a small, relatively cheap plow has changed all that, allowing him to nearly double the yields of his two acres of wheat, arranging it in neat, raised beds with smaller furrows that require a third less water.
"For a thousand years," Abdullah Sheikh's family has been working the land the same way — flooding fields in Egypt's Nile Delta and planting seeds by hand. But now a small, relatively cheap plow has changed all that, allowing him to nearly double the yields of his two acres of wheat, arranging it in neat, raised beds with smaller furrows that require a third less water.
"For a thousand years," Abdullah Sheikh's family has been working the land the same way — flooding fields in Egypt's Nile Delta and planting seeds by hand. But now a small, relatively cheap plow has changed all that, allowing him to nearly double the yields of his two acres of wheat, arranging it in neat, raised beds with smaller furrows that require a third less water.
"For a thousand years," Abdullah Sheikh's family has been working the land the same way — flooding fields in Egypt's Nile Delta and planting seeds by hand. But now a small, relatively cheap plow has changed all that, allowing him to nearly double the yields of his two acres of wheat, arranging it in neat, raised beds with smaller furrows that require a third less water.
Los agricultores de la provincia egipcia de Al Sharquiya (norte) están viendo como aumenta la productividad de sus cosechas hasta en un 30 por ciento, gracias a la tecnología de riego mecanizado de camas elevadas, que data de los años 1950, pero que ha comenzado a implantarse recientemente.
Los agricultores de la provincia egipcia de Al Sharquiya (norte) están viendo como aumenta la productividad de sus cosechas hasta en un 30 por ciento, gracias a la tecnología de riego mecanizado de camas elevadas, que data de los años 1950, pero que ha comenzado a implantarse recientemente.
International and regional agencies announced Monday the success of an effective practice in irrigated farming in Egypt that uses mechanized raised beds to promote water use efficiency.
