ITHACA — Fresh water isn’t unlimited. Rainfall isn’t predictable. And plants aren’t always thirsty. Just 3% of the world’s water is drinkable, and more than 70% of that fresh water is used for ...

Three new high-profile studies led by Dr. Yi Yao (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and ETH Zurich) show that while irrigation may ...

Water scarcity and the high cost of energy represent the main problems for irrigation communities, which manage water for this end, making it available to agriculture. In a context of drought, with a ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1243989 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1243989 Copy URL A dynamic programming model that allocates irrigations among competing crops, while ...

Farmers in the Semi-arid parts of Embu and adjacent counties are set to benefit from advanced irrigation technologies to produce food after the Israel government established an eight-acre model farm ...

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A predictive model combining information about plant physiology, real-time soil conditions and weather forecasts can help make more informed decisions about when and how much to irrigate. This could ...