"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.
Researchers from ICARDA, IWMI, WLE and the University of East Anglia are warning that large-scale irrigation systems (LSIS) are underperforming, which poses a threat to food production in the developing world.
New policy changes have made pumping groundwater for irrigation cheaper in West Bengal where groundwater resources are ample, resulting in greater production and income for poor farmers.
India has a new climate-smart cash crop: Sunshine. The sun increasingly is powering irrigation pumps on farms, and to avoid over-pumping of groundwater researchers have helped enable farmers to sell back surplus solar power to the utility grid.
The Support to the Horn of Africa Resilience (SHARE) project aims to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in the Bale Eco-Region (BER) of Ethiopia and improve the well being of communities that depend on these functions and services.
IFPRI has published a report on its work with Public Private Partnerships (PPP's) for irrigation in Africa, which is an outcome of their work assessing the potential benefits and drawbacks of using PPP's as a way to sustainably manage and develop irrigation schemes.
