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Enhanced wine quality is another benefit of the industry's adoption of best practices — such as drip irrigation, canopy management, knowledge of wine quality and viticultural improvements — from the Code Workbook.

As master gardener George Brookbank advises: «Use a drip irrigation system like you would any other irrigation system — don't expect too much from it.»

There are already techniques to protect the timber industry and cattle farmers in the south - east of the US from a water shortage, including drip irrigation and better early warning systems.

A switch from flood irrigation to sprinklers or drips could help achieve this goal, but capital costs are significant and soil salinization could ensue.

From solar lights to drip irrigation, the bottles make themselves very useful in all aspects of life.

The open - air Sentido Norte Restaurant & Lounge has a seasonal menu constructed from local ingredients, and the hotel, which incorporates sustainability at various levels, uses LED lights, paperless check - in, 100 % biodegradable laundry products, a drip irrigation system, and an aggressive recycling program.

You can call it drip irrigation 2.0: a growing number of Spanish farmers have decided to sign onto an ambitious digital initiative linking up their fields to a national grid controlled from Madrid.

From water conservation to less pollution to women's empowerment, a founder of Netafim explains why drip irrigation is the future of agriculture.

Drip irrigation, or micro-irrigation, is the most efficient way to get the maximum crop yield from a unit of water, the report says; flood irrigation — still the most common form --- is the least efficient; sprinkler systems are somewhere in between.

To promote such a shift, the researchers suggest that the capital cost of sprinkler or drip irrigation systems be defrayed by federal subsidies and property tax breaks from state and county governments.

Raising irrigation efficiency typically means shifting from the less efficient flood or furrow systems to overhead sprinklers or drip irrigation, the gold standard of irrigation efficiency.

Switching from flood or furrow to low - pressure sprinkler systems reduces water use by an estimated 30 percent, while switching to drip irrigation typically cuts water use in half.

The Central Government also plans to focus on promoting water conservation through the use of drip irrigation, among other efforts, and by developing drought - resistant crops, along with mitigating methane emissions from rice production and controlling farm waste through the creation of large - scale biogas digesters.

Shifting to more water - efficient crops and switching from flood irrigation to drip irrigation are two ways farmers can boost water productivity.

You can also set up your system to run on drip irrigation, and PlantsOnWalls sells irrigation kits with tubing made from recycled tires:

While the drip irrigation systems demonstrated in the video are impressive, it's hard to ignore the fact that the project is reliant on volunteer labor from abroad — while the volunteers describe how the local population has a hard time understanding the idea of saving and using rain water.

Koenig states that she sees the barrel as a platform for future designs — from adding filtration and drip irrigation kits, to adding a cell phone charger that uses the rotation of the wheel to generate electricity for a full battery.

Many engineers and entrepreneurs are working on smart ways to improve agricultural irrigation systems to minimize water use, from improved drip irrigation techniques to using cell phones and sensors to keep farmers alerted to areas of their crops that need water or are over watered.

Electric pumps send water from the Cramers» storage tanks to a recycled - plastic Rain Bird drip irrigation system that feeds the plants as well as to the waterfall and stream.