Category: IRRIGATION

This was according to Dr Piet Croucamp, political analyst at the North-West University Business School, who said the global decline in demand for agricultural products, increasing interest rates, and high production costs, were but a few of the reasons behind the perfect storm the South African agricultural economy found itself in at present. “The world…

The recent Constitutional Court decision on the transferability and trading of water rights will create uncertainty and erode investor confidence in the agricultural sector, stakeholders have said. The Constitutional Court granted the Department of Water and Sanitation’s (DWS) leave to appeal against a decision by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on the transferability and…

MEMBERS of Parliament have hailed President Samia Suluhu Hassan for raising the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture budget and called upon the government to throw its weight behind irrigation farming. In the current financial year, the Ministry for Agriculture was allocated 294bn/- but in the next budget the government will spend a whopping 751bn/-…

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 as the prolonged dry spell has affected most rain-fed crops this season. In most areas, the late planted maize is now a write off. Goromonzi farmer Mr Lazarus Chiroodza said…

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 example, that drip irrigation uses less water than other systems. Some farmers choose it based on this fact alone, and end up paying the price for not doing their homework.…

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 its devices in nurseries. Water Ways wins a new contract in Ethiopia. For about $297,000, the Israel-based company will provide smart irrigation systems to farmers in the East African country. The…

The World Bank is granting $40 million to the government of Madagascar. The funding will allow the development of irrigated agriculture, within the framework of the Sustainable Agriculture Project through a landscape approach (Padap). The climate emergency in Madagascar remains a concern. The Projet d’agriculture durable par une approche paysage (Padap) is one of the…

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 to depend on the forces of nature; OKECHUKWU NNODIM reports that this has compounded food insecurity in the country. Out of the 3.14 million hectares of farmland with irrigation potential in…

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 were found to be consistently delivering a much smaller area of irrigation or are completely broken and things aren’t improving. Large-scale irrigation infrastructure projects are back on the development agenda in…

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 remote sensing, especially of flood irrigation. “We are excited about this acquisition for many reasons,” says Darren Siekman, Vice President of Water Delivery & Business Development for Valley. “It strengthens our…