Water-Smart Agriculture: the Efficiency Drive the World Needs
Published on by Eric Valette, CEO and Co-Founder at AQUA4D in Technology
"In applying these three objectives to irrigation management, we usher in a new era of water-smart agriculture which will benefit growers, plants, and planet alike. Many of these solutions involve cost-effective upgrades or subtle changes in irrigation management. But history tells us that small changes can reverberate into the future, and that drips of innovation can turn into an unstoppable deluge through collective action."
Summary of the paper topics are:
Objective 1: Increased productivity
Doing more with less has become the mantra of a new sustainability drive in agriculture, and this goes as much for water use as anything else. New innovations are making it increasingly possible to do just this – increased yields (output) while using less resources (input), in ways which would have seemed mathematically impossible just a generation ago.
- Ag 4.0.
- Precision irrigation.
- Moister soils.
- Soil-less.
Objective 2: Enhanced resilience
With an increasingly erratic climate, water-smart irrigation management needs to take into account significant fluctuations and an increase in extreme events. For example, the ENSO cycle, responsible for El Niño and La Niña effects, are varying unpredictably in length, playing havoc with irrigation scheduling
Objective 3: Reduced emissions
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Taxonomy
- Water
- Agriculture
- Treatment
- Technology
- Environment
- Water Supply