Rigid line irrigators are still in extensive use and Flexible Line irrigators have gained significant penetration in smaller farms due to their low cost and ease of use- typically these use a poly pipe with a pod at regular intervals holding a sprinkler head. They are shifted by quad bike o...
Any homeowner or business owner understands the immense value afforded by a sprinkler system. When properly installed, a high-functioning sprinkler system keeps your property looking gorgeous even in the driest or hottest of seasons. They’re designed to save you valuable time and money when it co...
63–79. For an analysis of the Narmada projects as a case study of the inadequacies of traditional cost/benefit approaches to project planning see Jack Ruitenbeek and Cynthia Carier, “Evaluation of Narmada projects: An ecological economics perspective”, Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), 26...
Suddenly the Bank found itself defined as the doer of harm and the teller of lies, and required to react to outsiders' ideas about how it should do its business. For an organization that had always prided itself on its service to humanity and unrivalled technical expertise, this was a ...
The automation of irrigation processes via low-cost sensors can to spread technological advances in a sector very influenced by economical costs. This article presents an auto-calibrated pH sensor able to detect and adjust the imbalances in the pH levels of the nutrient solution used in hydroponic...
The C-MAP as a whole is composed of a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the sensor module attached. The sensor is modular so it could also be mounted on another mobile platform, e.g., tractor. It will be a remote sensing system that acquires data at a distance; however, ...
agriculture Article Development of an Energy Efficient and Fully Autonomous Low-Cost IoT System for Irrigation Scheduling in Water-Scarce Areas Using Different Water Sources Zisis Tsiropoulos 1,2,* , Evangelos Skoubris 2,3, Spyros Fountas 4, Ioannis Gravalos 5 and Theofanis Gemtos 1 1 ...
The nodes have been developed using low-cost processors and are equipped with batteries and solar panels, allowing their autonomy to be virtually unlimited, as shown by the consumption studies and tests carried out. Keywords: precision agriculture; wireless sensor networks; smart agriculture; regulated...
Analyzing IMT implementation in Indonesia, Suhardiman [18] concluded that the Irrigation Agency and international donors had common interests in implementing IMT using a business-as-usual approach. As a corollary of all these hot issues, after reviewing 230 case studies in the literature, Senanayake...