How to reduce usage of water in agriculture?





Soil moisture data is becoming a key component of sustainable farming programs worldwide as producers contend with increasingly unreliable weather patterns and drier growing seasons. Measuring precise moisture conditions in their field’s assistance farmers maintain soil health, improve water conservation, and increase yields”.
Farmers can create data-driven, land-management decisions and reduce their water consumption by up to 30% and  addition to providing soil nursing for row-crops, orchards, and soft fruits, the company’s technology is said to support efficient water use in public and private landscaping projects and municipal parks and sports fields.
Sensoterra has been working with growers since its founding in 2014 to bring smart soil-moisture solutions to the market. In addition to providing soil monitoring for row-crops, orchards, and soft fruits, the company’s technology also supports efficient water use in public and private landscaping projects, municipal parks, and sports fields.
Sustainability minded farmers are looking ahead and using a resource of methods to conserve water:

  1. Drip Irrigation: Drip irrigation systems deliver water directly to a plant’s roots, reducing the desertion that happens with spray watering systems. Timers can be used to schedule watering for the cooler parts of the day, further reducing water loss.
  2. Seizing and Storing Water: Many farms rely on municipal water or wells while some have built their own ponds to capture and store rainfall for use throughout the year.
  3. Irrigation Scheduling: To avoid under- or overwatering their crops, farmers sensibly monitor the weather forecast, as well as soil and plant moisture, and familiarize their irrigation schedule to the current conditions.
  4. Dry Farming: Dry farming tends to enhance flavors, but harvests lower yields than irrigated crops. Wine grapes, olives, potatoes, and apple trees can also be effectively dry farmed in California.
  5. Rotational Grazing: Rotational grazing is a process in which livestock are moved between fields to help promote meadow regrowth. Good grazing management increases the fields’ water absorption and declines water runoff, making pastures more drought-resistant.
  6. Compost and Mulch: Compost, or decomposed organic matter used as compost, has been found to improve soil structure, increasing its water-holding capacity.
  7. Cover Crops: Implanted to protect soil that would otherwise go bare, cover crops reduce weeds, increase soil fertility and organic matter, and help prevent erosion and compaction.

However, networked agriculture is still in its beginning. “Less than 2% of agricultural land worldwide is equipped for soil-moisture measurement, which presents a very large market for wireless soil-monitoring and a big opportunity to improve water conservation”.

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Eliza Russell
Program Manager | Agri Food Aqua2019
E-mail: agrifoodaqua@memeetings.com
Tel: 1- 201-380-5561 


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