JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli company has developed a drip irrigation system for growing rice to replace the flooded paddies that have supplied the world with rice for generations but cause a ...

New research unveils how innovative farming combining zero-tillage maize, zero-tillage wheat, and zero-tillage mungbean, all ...

Netafim is one of Israel’s best-known success stories. The company was started in 1965 and became the world leader in drip irrigation systems, especially for arid farmlands. Now Netafim is now ...

The first sustainable farming initiative leveraging Israel’s unparalleled research and innovation in water technology to reduce rice-crop water use will begin this spring at Conaway Ranch in Woodland, ...

PHOENIX — Ronald Rayner has been fascinated with water since he was a boy on his father’s farm in Goodyear. Now a partner on the family farm, A Tumbling-T Ranches, he has found a way to conserve water ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2016 -- The first sustainable farming initiative leveraging Israel's unparalleled research and innovation in water technology to reduce rice-crop water use will begin this ...

Global trends indicate that these survival basics are already jeopardized and will become seriously scarce in the not-so-distant future. “If assumptions about population growth come true, we will need ...

ST. MATTHEWS – Assurances from officials that the wastewater treatment drip irrigation field proposed by the Town of St. Matthews won’t contaminate the surrounding area and won’t generate an odor didn ...

Mulched drip irrigation is a technique practiced largely in arid regions of China to improve soil quality, increase crop yield, and save water. In a recent study published in Npj Sustainable ...

(SOUNDBITE) (English) ROEI YONAI, NETAFIM HEAD OF STRATEGIC CROPS:"Producing one kilo of rice need 5,000 litters of water. By using drip irrigation to grow rice, you can save 70 percent of the water, ...

People play in the mud as they plant rice saplings during National Paddy Day also called Asar Pandra, that marks the commencement of rice crop planting in paddy fields as monsoon season arrives, in ...