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European Territorial Cooperation Programmes (ETCP), GREECE-ITALY 2007-2013
Efficient Irrigation Management Tools for Agricultural Cultivations and Urban Landscapes
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It even offers free space to host
websites allowing companies and
farmers to sell their products online.
The platform has been created by the
Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food
and Environment (MAGRAMA) and
the Polytechnic University of Madrid
(UPM). Chil also contains a special
section regarding water.
Education - Training - Studying
A
participatory
approach
to
innovation projects
The new EIP-AGRI brochure on
‘Participatory
approaches
for
agricultural innovation' highlights and
gives practical examples of a number
of methods which can help you set up
new groups, identify partners and work
with people from other professions or
sectors to develop new projects. It
could be useful for setting up
Operational Groups, Horizon 2020
projects or other initiatives.
OECD
principles
on
Water
Governance
On 4 June 2015, Ministers from
OECD’s 34 member countries
welcomed the OECD Principles on
Water Governance, which set
standards for more effective, efficient
and
inclusive
design
and
implementation of water policies, and
encouraged governments to put them
into action.
Facts regarding how irrigation
scheduling is done in the US
According to the latest USA Farm and
Ranch Irrigation Survey in 2013, there
were 229,237 farms with 55.3 million
irrigated acres in the United States.
From the variety of available data it is
very interesting to analyse the
responses regarding what method
farmers use in deciding when to
irrigate. All farms responded in this
question and of them, the condition of
the crop was the method used in
179,490 farms, followed by the feel of
the soil (90,361), personal calendar
scheduling (49,048), scheduled by
water delivery organization (37,301),
soil moisture sensing device (22,656 –
9.88%), commercial or government
scheduling service (17,982 – 7.84%),
reports on daily crop water
evaporation, ET (17,815 – 7.81%).
Interesting enough is that more than
13,000 farms responded that they start
irrigating when their neighbor begins.
Plant moisture sensing devices are
used in 3,669 farms. The least used
are the computer simulation models
(1,915 farms – 0.84%).
Global agencies call for urgent
action
to
avoid
irreversible
groundwater depletion
The FAO, UNESCO, World Bank, GEF
and International Association of