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IRRIGATION

Follow the Food: some alternatives to water shortages in India, the US and South Africa

Agriculture requires a large amount freshwater; as much as 70% of the freshwater supplies are used up for growing food crops Workers planting rice in...

Zimbabwe launches irrigation support scheme for smallholder farmers

Zimbabwe has launched a 20-million-U.S.-dollar Smallholder Irrigation Infrastructure Development Fund meant to boost rural incomes and ensure food self-sufficiency. The fund, which is expected to...

Nigerian Government Rehabilitates 12 Irrigation Systems For Kano State Farmers

To promote all year-round farming, the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Water Resources has handed over twelve rehabilitated irrigation systems to farmers...

Smart irrigation controllers to see rapid growth in coming years

Smart irrigation has been benefitted with the advent of Internet of Things (IoT), thus pushing the growth of smart irrigation controllers market at a...

Technology and innovation to ignite agricultural transformation

To overcome these challenges in sustainable and transformative ways, there must be consistent investment in innovation, and collaboration that can help boost the sector’s...

Debunking insurance myths

When was the last time you really wanted to buy a policy? People buy insurance begrudgingly and moan when the debit orders hit their bank...

Huge expectations from the State of the Nation Address

Christo van der Rheede, executive director of Agri SA, told Farmer’s Weekly that the only way to guarantee food security in South Africa would be through...

A word of warning for start-up producers

Recently I heard of a proposed project that planned to produce 90t of tilapia annually from a greenhouse-based system in the southern coastal region...

WHAT AFRICA’S IRRIGATION RENAISSANCE MEANS FOR FOOD SECURITY

The situation is exacerbated by the fact that a bulk of food producers in Africa, up to33 million farmers who produce 70 percent of the food,...

Nigerian Government Rehabilitates 12 Irrigation Systems For Kano State Farmers

To promote all year-round farming, the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Water Resources has handed over twelve rehabilitated irrigation systems to farmers...

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