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IRRIGATION

Tanzania: Let’s Focus On Irrigation Farming-MPs

MEMBERS of Parliament have hailed President Samia Suluhu Hassan for raising the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture budget and called upon the government...

Zimbabwe: Farmers Call for Micro-Irrigation

Farmers have called on the Government to increase investment in micro-irrigation facilities for smallholder farmers to ensure household and national food security. The calls come...

The pros and cons of drip irrigation

Many types of irrigation are available; it will pay you to explore all the options carefully before making a commitment. It is well known, for...

ETHIOPIA: Israel’s Water Ways to supply modern irrigation systems

Water Ways Technologies has won a contract worth almost $297,000 for smart irrigation and drip systems in Ethiopia. The Israeli agro-technology company will install...

MADAGASCAR: The World Bank grants $40 million for irrigation development

The World Bank is granting $40 million to the government of Madagascar. The funding will allow the development of irrigated agriculture, within the framework...

Only 88,950 out of 3.4 million hectares irrigated, agric outputs suffer

A total of 3.4 million hectares of land in Nigeria need irrigation. However, only 88,95 hectares currently benefit from the practice, leaving the rest...

Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa are consistently falling short of their promises

Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa don’t measure up to their plans according to new research into the projects by scientists. Many of the schemes...

Valley Irrigation Acquires PrecisionKing

Valley Irrigation, The Leader in Precision Irrigation®, has acquired PrecisionKing, a Mississippi-based ag tech company with products focused on moisture monitoring, pump control and...

There’s no need to reinvent the wheel to boost growth in agriculture

The South African government should rather recast its vision of agricultural development using chapter six of the National Development Plan as a point of...

Local start-up pushes drone irrigation

A LOCAL tech start-up, Iris Dynamics, is seeking to promote drone irrigation to improve harvests at a time unpredictable weather conditions are threatening Zimbabwe’s...

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