Robert Wells – who has more than 35 years’ experience in irrigation – developed and trialled his system on clients’ farms after seeing sprinkler irrigation systems in the Middle East. “As most growers ...

BENRA(SANGRUR): Taking serious note of depleting water table in Punjab, the agriculture department has taken a new initiative for the irrigation of paddy fields by installing a ‘Rain Gun’ in the ...

Unlike the knowledge and awareness of the present day, about 25 years ago farmers never knew the effectiveness of water conservation and the need for preserving groundwater by using tubes and buckets ...

GUNTUR:The much publicised rain guns expected to be given to farmers on subsidised prices for protecting their standing crops is being seen as only a temporary alternative for wetting dry fields.

Diesel and electricity are the main energy sources used to pump water through irrigation systems. It was, therefore, a double whammy when last year’s high prices hit potato growers in what was one of ...

Ministers P. Narayana and Sidda Raghava Rao termed the mass deployment of rain guns, sprinklers and water tankers to protect the groundnut crop in about one lakh acres in Chittoor district as ...