Irrigation 2.0: Which water when and where?
This project "Irrigation 2.0" aims to improve the efficiency of farm irrigation to ensure an optimal application of the available water sources.
This project "Irrigation 2.0" aims to improve the efficiency of farm irrigation to ensure an optimal application of the available water sources.
In drought periods irrigation is economically justified for some high value crops like vegetables and (early) potato.
... dependent agriculture in this region actually is on a fresh water supply during a temporary ban on irrigation with ground or surface water.
... emission factors for green cover crops, leguminous fodder crops, straw residue retention, tillage, irrigation, and agroforestry. ILVO's research showed that a higher proportion of leguminous fodde...
...agricultural soils. OP-PEIL provided concrete figures on the effectiveness and profitability of sub-irrigation and CD as a technique for controlling salinization. Models were also used to make an i...
...ted platform of platforms. This will detect and improve sub-optimal performance: such as over-irrigation, excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides (which increase production costs, contaminate g...
...ers in a number of regions ('protection zones') are still not allowed to use surface water for crop irrigation due to risk assessments based on annual samples taken from watercourses. ILVO has stor...
We aim to map rice water status using remote sensing from drones and satellites, to better tune the irrigation scheduling to the crop water demand.